Hi Rishi, Thanks for sending this summary. I think it represents a lot of interesting synergies between the 2 projects. I personally plan on checking out GFac and also plan on looking at the Workflow Editor in Airavata.
Folks in Airavata may want to check out the ongoing work on OODT-157, our OPSUI. We gave a presentation on it at ApacheCon and I'm really excited about it from a UI perspective. Cheers, Chris On Nov 29, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Verma, Rishi (388J) wrote: > Hello OODT and Airavata developers, > > There was a meeting between some OODT and Airavata developers last week at > Indiana University Bloomington, and much was discussed in the way of how the > these two Apache projects relate as well as what the potential for > collaboration between the two is. > > Below is a summary e-mail of the meeting, sent yesterday to participating > members. We thought it would be useful to share this summary e-mail with the > dev teams of OODT and Airavata. > > If anyone has input on this topic, please feel free to share. > > Thank you, > rishi > > On Nov 28, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Verma, Rishi (388J) wrote: > >> Hi Suresh, >> >> Thanks again for setting up a meeting last week to talk discuss >> OODT/Airavata similarities and potential for collaboration. >> >> It was also fun to see the new CIB in its full glory! >> >> A quick summary of our meeting: >> * We discussed, in some detail, OODT components including: CAS Workflow, CAS >> Resource Manager, and Grid. Rishi described some example uses of the >> components in various projects for the benefit of the Airavata team. >> * Airavata team described, and demoed a simple workflow execution, >> showcasing the XBaya suite in particular. >> * There was a discussion on how Airavata components could be used to support >> OODT activities and vice-versa >> >> Some of the potential collaborative ideas we had, included: >> [1] Having XBaya (including the GUI interface) support the construction of >> OODT workflows. This could be useful for OODT developers. >> [2] Creating a translation tool for transforming OODT Workflows into >> Airavata workflows, and vice versa. I don't think we established a specific >> use-case for this, but it may be beneficial for some. >> [3] Leveraging Airavata's GFac facilities to help OODT resource manager jobs >> run on grid resources like GridFTP, S3 etc. >> >> All of the above points require further investigation, but it is a start. I >> think if Marlon Pierce comes by JPL in January, it would be beneficial to >> set up a meeting between him and our OODT team here at JPL to talk further >> about some of the points above. Since there are similarities between our two >> projects, at the least exchanging ideas would prove useful. >> >> Feel free to add any points I missed! >> >> Thanks, >> Rishi > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
