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LarKC Architecture Workshop

19-20 March 2009, Stuttgart

Meeting Main Discussions

... in progress. If you have attended the meeting, please, feel free to add your notes here

• Architecture discussion

  • Georgina´s presentation

  • Mick´s presentation
  • Both presentation seems to be compatible, need to adapt some terminology and move some functionality from platform to decider domain.

  • See consolidated architecture picture (finalized on Friday, after lunch)

• Task farming:
  • concept presented by Eyal
  • Alexey´s presentation on Grid middleware and how to manage resources

• IBIS Overview presentation, by Eyal (see http://wiki.larkc.eu/LarkcProject/WP5/Meetings/ArchitectureWorkshop, Presentations)

  • There is a detailed tutorial that was presented at CCGRID 2008 online, http://www.cs.vu.nl/ibis/tutorial.html. Papers with details on eg ?SmartSockets, Satin, Ibis Serialisation etc. are on http://www.cs.vu.nl/ibis/papers.html

• Consolidation of a global architectural layers picture integrating all components from plug-ins down to physical resources.

• Urban Baby LarKC current status + demo (Luka)
  • AP: Luka to deploy the current working pipeline in Ljubljana to have it accessible from outside.
• Data Layer API + Plug-in API discussion. Vassil´s presentation and update of the presentation according to meeting discussions. We need to agree on the API in order to tell the stable version next week Sheffield plug-in workshop.
  • Output of this discussion (Thursday + Friday) is being incorporated to the Data Layer API by Vassil.

Next steps timeline and distribution of responsibilities:

Weekly deadlines until Milano meeting (2 weeks before Early Adopters Workshop)

3 main streams of tasks: prototype, public release and distribution

Main responsibilities:

• Vassil: new data API (first implement and later support; intensive early job)
• Barry: get Baby LarKC working again (platform + one pipeline. much work early, less later)

• Luka: first get 2 Baby LarKC pipelines working again, then support for Urban pipeline, then developers manual & wizard

• Eyal & Alexey: everything to do with distribution

• Axel: coordination, code management

See Detailed Timeline Table, or in PDF next-steps.pdf