Hi Danushka,

Do you think this will be a GSoC project by itself? I did not get what did you 
mean by pluggable transport messaging layer? Within GFac? 

The web based workflow monitor will also need some light messaging layer, 
thinking out loud.

Suresh

On Apr 15, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Danushka Menikkumbura 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Just FYI ; I had something similar in my mind and we had a discussion [1]
> on dev@ few weeks back. I still believe that it would be a must-have
> feature in Airavata.
> 
> [1] -
> http://apache.markmail.org/message/fnujm4j4kk2h2kxu?q=Decoupling+GFac+Providers
> 
> Thanks,
> Danushka
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> + 1 this is a great topic and a stand alone one by itself.
>> 
>> A good example to watch here is what Milinda did last year [1] , he not
>> only added a cloud provider but fundamentally fixed the GFac architecture
>> [2]. A similar goal of a concrete task of adding the provider Marlon
>> suggested while critically reviewing the provider architecture will be
>> great.
>> 
>> Suresh
>> 
>> [1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-357
>> [2] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-477
>> 
>> On Apr 15, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Marlon Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
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>>> Hi all--
>>> 
>>> There has been some great discussion on GSOC projects involving
>>> JS/HTML5/REST/etc user interface environments.  These will be great
>>> for exercising the Airavata API and evaluating the best ways to wrap
>>> it as a service.
>>> 
>>> There's also been a lot of work put into redesigning the GFAC
>>> component to make it easier to provide plugins.  It would be great if
>>> we could identify projects that exercise this as well and make a wide
>>> range of new plugins in the process.  Some possibilities:
>>> 
>>> * Azure and other cloud provider plugins to complement the EC2 plugin.
>>> 
>>> * Open Science Grid-based plugins.  These may be interesting for
>>> anyone who has or wants to set up a campus grid
>>> (https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/CampusGrids/WebHome).
>>> 
>>> * JSDL/BES-based service providers. JSDL and BES are Open Grid Forum
>>> standards for running jobs on high performance computers.  UNICORE and
>>> SAGA are a couple of implementations.
>>> 
>>> More creative suggestions for plugins are also welcome.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Marlon
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