+1 to all of Suresh's comments below. Feel free to keep annoying us and asking questions and I for one will continue to try and help :)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Suresh Marru <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:34 PM To: Sameera Jayaratna <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Shahani Markus Weerawarana <[email protected]>, jpluser <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Jun Wang <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Harsha Kumara <[email protected]>, AMILA RANATUNGA <[email protected]>, Nipuni Perera <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Integrating OGC"s WPS capabilities with Apache Airavata >Hi Sameera et al, > >You guys are doing great in engaging multiple projects and I noticed you >have started to poking Rave as well. Keep up the good work. + 1 on Chris >suggestion and your follow up to integrate SIS into the mix as well. You >have received some good positive feedback from every one. I will go other >way and be critical but this is not a indication of your work but my >attempt to provide some research direction to the technical integration >you are doing. > >* The report [1] is lacking the goal of your project and also the >problem. Image a target audience of your fellow moratuwa students who are >good software engineers but know nothing about Airavata and WPS. Write a >one page section upfront describing these projects, why they need to be >integrated, how will they compliment each other. You have some of these >details in objectives throughout the report. But put them in layman terms >so any one should be able to read and quickly understanding what your >project is about. > >* You have to check with your local mentor (I presume Shahani), but I am >getting a feeling that you are crossing too many projects without a firm >goal. I have already seen Airavata+WPS+SIS+Rave. This is great but first >lets make sure we can envision use cases which an take advantage of such >integration. If you haven't already, Can you look at some of the workflow >use cases here - >https://sites.google.com/site/earthcubeworkflow/workflow-vignettes > >* Providing quality use case is a failure of ours and not your problem. >But you have to keep asking the right questions and annoy us enough until >you get what you want. > >Cheers, >Suresh > >[1] - >https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4C0YG6X6AgiXRTha3P2SXfMkiaXrNJzGG_aOg >aNf78/edit#heading=h.1w0yws22gxmm >[2] - https://sites.google.com/site/earthcubeworkflow/workflow-vignettes > >On May 20, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Sameera Jayaratna ><[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> From our research for the past few months we have gathered some ideas >>about implementing our project idea, integrating OGC¹s WPS capabilities >>with Apache Airavata. We have written a short report including our >>findings and our proposed solutions. These ideas are still at a very >>abstract level. We are hoping to improve them with feedback and >>suggestions. >> >> Also we would appreciate suggestions of any different approaches other >>than the ones mentioned in the document. >> >> Our report is shared here. >> >> >> Thank you, >> Sameera. >> -- >> Sameera Jayaratna >> Undergraduate >> Department of Computer Science And Engineering >> University of Moratuwa >> Sri Lanka >
