GridLab WP12 Access for mobile users GridLab Review, Brussels, Sept What's new in mobile user support Bartek Lewandowski, Piotr Grabowski Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review 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
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review GridLab mobile scenarios and use cases Applications/simulations steering User notifications about events Visualization for mobile users Enabling offline working practices
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review GridLab mobile devices Mobile phones Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) Notebooks
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review GridLab „Minimal Grid Interface” Mobile client J2ME/CLDC/MIDP midlet is running on mobile phones, PDAs and PC laptops Features: browsing notification messages, displaying visualizations, jobs steering Gateway Mobile Command Center (MCC) acts as a gateway between mobile client and Grid services Developed as a Gridsphere portlet and dedicated servlet „pluggable” – open for new grid services automatically grabs the device profile (device class, screen size, color depth, etc) Minimal Grid Interface
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review What’s new in WP12 Mobile client Visualisation features Jobs steering features Gateway Visualisation features Jobs steering features Notification wrapped with Web/Grid service interface Calls to notification service are authorised by GAS Message Box wrapped with Web/Grid service interface Jobs steering Get 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
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Integration with GridLab WPs WP4 (portal) Mobile portlet MCC as a Gridsphere portlet Notification service for portal WP6 (security) GAS (authorisation) WP8 (data&vis) Storage Box (metadata for Message Box) Visualisation server WP9 (GRMS) Notification service for GRMS GRMS features from mobile client WP10 (iGrid) Registering services: notification, message box Discovering services (on-going) WP11 (monitoring) Logging service
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Current status Mobile client J2ME midlet is running on mobile phones, PDAs and PC laptops Features: browsing notification messages, displaying visualizations Jobs steering Gateway Mobile Command Center acts as a gateway between mobile client and Grid services Developed as a Gridsphere portlet and dedicated servlet
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Current status Mobile grid services Message Box User messages stored in the folders structure Notification Exploited by GRMS, Portal
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Current status Mobile Visualization Service J2ME midlet intearcts via Mobile Command Center with Mobile Visualisation Service (developed by WP8) Background Mobile 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 modes Display an downscaled images, cropping images Image sequences
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Current status GRMS Jobs steering Get 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
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Current status
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Current status Some pictures (mobile phones)
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Current status
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Current status Some pictures (IPAQ screenshots)
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Current status Some pictures (PC laptop)
GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 4th GridLab review Plans Offline working practices Refining existing scenarios Extending both the mobile client and the gateway of such features Developing specialized Gridsphere portlet for managing user mobile profile Internal Improving performance Documentation improvementsh (tutorials, faq)
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