Ted Powell wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:41:12PM -0500, James M Stephenson wrote:
All,
I would like to know what kind of enhancements you might like to see
to the OSCAR Gui if it were implemented in a web mode. I am applying
for the Google Summer of Code 2006 and would like some feedback from the
user community in the case that I am selected. I myself as an OSCAR
user would benefit from this.
--Matt
I connect to the head node of the cluster I'm developing using SSH with
X forwarding, and the GUI shows up on my 2880x1200 monitor pair just fine.
Are you unable to use SSH and/or X between your preferred work location
and your cluster, and are therefore looking for an alternative access
method?
Or do you see some possible benefits to using a web browser for display
instead of the Qt and/or Tk toolkits?
I'm not yet far enough into OSCAR to comment one way or the other on the
quality of the existing GUI's _use_ of Qt/Tk (looks fine so far), but
I do know enough about the Qt and Tk toolkits to hold the opinion that
their _capabilities_ are well in excess of those of a generic web browser.
Of course, I could be missing something; hence my questions.
The goal would be to enable scientists that are not as familiar to using
X be able to maintain the cluster without them having to waste valuable
time in learning how to setup and configure an X-server on their own
PC. Clustering in my experience is typically used where a group of
engineers/scientists that want something simulated get some developers
to create the programs, and then they get rid of the developers and just
use the final product over and over again. I am working right now with
an optics lab doing simulations of emag fields in a medium. The other
lab workers and the professor consider learning anything unix a burden,
so its to soften the burden for people like that. Not something a
programmer would use necessarily.
--Matt
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