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Here are a couple links that i ran across lately that discuss organizational complexity of "virtual organizations".

Simile Timeplot is a very nice javascript package for data plotting and manipulation. See below for an example using TimePlot to show Camera user registrations and major events. (Note: firefox and safari 3.x only)

Good links for the graphic design of website...

(from mike chiu)

• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/21/60-elegant-and-visually-appea...
• http://webdesignfromscratch.com/
• http://webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm

- karan

see http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/technology/06ibm.html?_r=1&ref=busines...

By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: August 6, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5 — The National Science Foundation is planning to award I.B.M. a contract to build the world’s fastest supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, according to documents that were accidentally placed on a federal government Web site for a short time last week.

ok, as a mac user, i have this problem _all_ the time. i put a powerpoint talk together and send it to a windows user who then complains that he can't see the graphic images. Windows gives a nice error about not having quicktime or some such thing. Even if the windows user installs quicktime, they still can't see the images. quite annoying.

The root cause are images that are "cut-and-pasted" into the presentation. images that are inserted from the insert->graphics->from file seem to work fine.

Now that Inca is deployed on and monitoring all allocated TeraGrid resources, we want to use it to best monitor the functionality of Coordinated TeraGrid Software & Services (CTSS) and other TeraGrid functionality as requested. Science gateways, for example, could use custom views of Inca data to test and confirm that their applications' TeraGrid requirements are being met.

TeraGrid plans to improve its software and service testing this year by:
- requesting that software providers test their packages on more TeraGrid architectures before releasing them

Final day, yay!

Gateways Working Group Session -- Notes from Nancy coming soon. However, the point that I found most interesting was the idea of a TG data gateway. This would be a gateway sitting inside the TG (close to the data on the fast networks) that is used to present data to users for download through a simple http click, or perhaps a java webstart gridftp download.

GridWay - Globus based Metascheduler. Uses 'template' files which have a language for making a script that looks like condor submit script. Within that you can specify how you want it to rank a job (fastest cpu, particular architecture). It currently only looks at which arch fits, and then has available cpus NOW. We talked a bit about for the TG, since the queues are always full, coupling the batch queue prediction service with the MDS cpus avail that they use now to come up with a better idea of where to submit to.
http://www.gridway.org/index.php

Software Provider Talks:

* GFac2 is a direct OPAL competitor also coming from someone who has Indiana ties. http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/gfac/index.html

* GRAM - new 'local' notification scheme in java ws-core 4.0.5 to local services running in the same container that is much quicker. This made staging via RFT in ws-gram much more efficient than before, and a tad faster than gram2 for larger sets of jobs (1000 jobs submitted at the same time). It's still slower by a few seconds for an individual job.

GRAM-4 Auditing - Addition to ws-gram so that a record is inserted in a database containing both the grid job id and the local scheduler job id, as well as the charge for the job. You can query this information via an ogsa-dai web service call. This will be useful for gateways that use community accounts and want to find out how much of thier allocation a user has blown through or the like. This'll be pushed out in CTSS4 soon.