[Swift-devel] CPU usage with provider-deef

Ben Clifford benc at hawaga.org.uk
Sat Jun 16 18:15:02 CDT 2007


The WSDL should describe part of the web services bit of the protocol. 
That might be a good place to start. The WSDL should already describe the 
messages that go over the wire in something vaguely readable to a human. 
Probably what would be needed would be the extra info to say which order 
messages are sent.

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Mike Wilde wrote:

> I think a nice clean message sequence chart describing Falkon's various
> activities would be very useful, as its the backbone of its logic.
> 
> I tried to create this for the SC paper by asking Ioan to describe the
> protocol to me, but I dod not succeed.
> 
> I think this would be a very useful description to maintain, as a UML sequence
> chart, and that Ioan this would be a very important part of your thesis or of
> future papers.
> 
> Its up to you and Ian to weigh whether this would be valuable to your
> research.  I think its invaluable for design, review and debugging.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mihael Hategan wrote, On 6/16/2007 3:15 PM:
> > On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 19:52 +0000, Ian Foster wrote:
> > > I wasn't suggesting (at least in the first instance) that Mihael take the
> > > prototype and turn it into production, but that Mihael and Ioan sit down
> > > together and do a code walkthrough. I think that this would likely
> > > identify bugs and opportunities for simplification.
> > 
> > It's somewhat on the same in level of fun :). From the experience I've
> > accumulated so far, design is hard. Understanding prototype design is
> > probably even harder (not only do you need to understand the problem,
> > you also need to understand why many non-obvious things are done the way
> > they are done).
> > 
> > Mihael
> > 
> > > Ian
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk>
> > > 
> > > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:36:17 To:Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
> > > Cc:swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] CPU usage with provider-deef
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 12:03 -0500, Mike Wilde wrote:
> > > > > This should be fun, and a nice break from the I2U2 work that you've
> > > > > been immersed in, Mihael.
> > > > I have my reservations towards the amount of fun it involves.
> > > Right, taking prototypes and turning them into production isn't
> > > necessarily fun - in fact, a lot of the fun already happened with the
> > > making of the prototype and the rest is some what drugery. (to an extent
> > > that's the same situation i2u2 cosmic was/is in).
> > > 
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