Kepler Meeting Agenda January 2004

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Logistics

Topics

• Review usability assesments prepared by Laura Downey
• Review the usability materials in CVS usability report, Kepler usability issues, design of Kepler menus
• Generation of documentation and doclets
• Making it easier for users to wrap new tools
• Commandline tools/browser and R integration
• Design/implementation of uniform access to data in Kepler
• Single GUI/actor approach for EcoGrid/JDBC/GridFTP/Geon Data/etc.
• EML and other metadata query systems
• Also what 'services' can be stored and searched
• Design unified grid-computing approach
• Identify 'parallelizable' Kepler actors (e.g., map actor)
• Unify approach to integrating condor/nimrod/etc. in Kepler
• Approach for making individual Kepler instances part of 'MyKeplerGrid'
• In particular, launch Kepler and allow other Kepler users to run jobs on your machine
• How-to templates/patterns for parrleizable workflows, including documentation
• Design portable Kepler actor archive and repository
• Jar files that contain everything needed for an actor or workflow
• Can load these jar files at runtime
• Please review the Kepler Object Manager description on the Kepler web site
• Identify and fix existing anomolous bugs (scrollbar resizing, search lock ups, etc.)
• Quality control fixes on existing code (polishing)
• Create timeline for stabilization and Kepler beta and 1.0.0 releases

Also of interest but probably postponed because Shawn and Bertram can't make it:

• Design/implementation of semantic integration tools
• Semantic compatibility checker, constrain search, integrate actors/data
• End up with a phased implementation plan and clear roadmap for the developers to follow

See the meeting notes on the Kepler website.

Agenda

Tuesday, January 18

• 8:00 am Welcome
• Morning
• Usability
• Afternoon
• Data access
• possible breakouts after a plenary on design

Wednesday, January 19

• Morning
• Object Manager
• Afternoon
• Grid computing
• Ilkay: brief overview of existing approaches in kepler

Thursday, January 20

• Morning
• Breakouts
• Bugs session
• Grid design session/parallel ENM workflow
• Object manager design session

• Afternon
• Semantics and integration plenary SMS Notes
• Breakouts
• Semantic data and service discovery / kepler object manager searching
• Semantic data and service integration
• Discuss scenarios for use of the SCIA tool
• Other breakouts?

Friday, January 21

• 12:00 noon -- Adjourn
• Morning
• Milestones and timelines for releases

Participants