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GridLab WP12Access for mobile users
GridLab Review, Brussels, Sept. 2004What's new in mobile user support
Bartek Lewandowski, Piotr Grabowski
www.gridlab.org/mobile
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Overview
GridLab mobile scenarios and use cases
GridLab mobile devices
GridLab "Minimal Grid Interface"
What’s new in WP12
Integration with GridLab WPs
Current status
Plans for the last months
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
GridLab mobile scenarios and use cases
Applications/simulations steering
User notifications about events
Visualization for mobile users
Enabling offline working practices
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
GridLab mobile devices
Mobile phones
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
Notebooks
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
GridLab „Minimal Grid Interface”
Mobile client J2ME/CLDC/MIDP midlet is running on mobile phones, PDAs and PC laptopsFeatures: browsing notification messages, displaying visualizations, jobs steering
GatewayMobile Command Center (MCC) acts as a gateway between mobile client and Grid servicesDeveloped as a Gridsphere portlet and dedicated servlet„pluggable” – open for new grid servicesautomatically grabs the device profile (device class, screen size, color depth, etc)
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Minimal Grid Interface
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
What’s new in WP12
Mobile clientVisualisation featuresJobs steering features
GatewayVisualisation features Jobs steering features
Notificationwrapped with Web/Grid service interfaceCalls to notification service are authorised by GAS
Message Boxwrapped with Web/Grid service interface
Jobs steeringGet jobs list/migrate/resume/suspend/cancel/edit/info/historySubmitting new job on the basis of edited/modified description of already finished jobsRegister for notifications related to the running jobs
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Integration with GridLab WPs
WP4 (portal)Mobile portletMCC as a Gridsphere portletNotification service for portal
WP6 (security)GAS (authorisation)
WP8 (data&vis)Storage Box (metadata for Message Box)Visualisation server
WP9 (GRMS)Notification service for GRMSGRMS features from mobile client
WP10 (iGrid)Registering services: notification, message boxDiscovering services (on-going)
WP11 (monitoring)Logging service
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Current status
Mobile client J2ME midlet is running on mobile phones, PDAs and PC laptops
Features: browsing notification messages,
displaying visualizations
Jobs steering
GatewayMobile Command Center acts as a gateway between mobile client and Grid services
Developed as a Gridsphere portlet and dedicated servlet
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Current status
Mobile grid servicesMessage Box
User messages stored in the folders structure
NotificationExploited by GRMS, Portal
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Current status
Mobile Visualization ServiceJ2ME midlet intearcts via Mobile Command Center with Mobile Visualisation Service (developed by WP8)
BackgroundMobile client limitations
Mobile user expectations concerning extra-visualization features
Viz service downscales the visualizations into „mobile” format on the basis of mobile profile: screen size, color depth
2 different modesDisplay an downscaled images, cropping images
Image sequences
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Current status
GRMS Jobs steeringGet jobs list/migrate/resume/suspend/cancel/edit/info/history
Submitting new job on the basis of edited/modified description of already finished jobs
Register for notifications related to the running jobs
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Current status
Some pictures (mobile phones)
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Current status
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Current status
Some pictures (IPAQ screenshots)
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Current status
Some pictures (PC laptop)
4th GridLab reviewGridLab WP12 (MOBILE)
Plans
Offline working practicesRefining existing scenarios
Extending both the mobile client and the gateway of such features
Developing specialized Gridsphere portlet for managing user mobile profile
InternalImproving performance
Documentation improvementsh (tutorials, faq)
