Dossiers: 2 days ----[ GRAS ]--------------------------------------- Milestone 0: 3 days (01/25) - core ok (errors, logs ; dynars, dicts, hooks, pools; config, rrdb) Milestone 1: 1 week (02/01) - base API ok (dispatch, type parsing macro) - binary representation: fixed types (from NWS) - transport: TCP (from NWS), SG, File - virtualize (linux, solaris, SG) & conditions Possible paper: 1.5 weeks - implement some NAS benchmarks on top of GRAS, and validate GRAS (plus SimGrid) by showing that the simulator leads to the same behaviours Milestone 2: 2 weeks (02/15) - binary representation: any type, SNWF (Sender Native Wire Format) - convertions between linux/i32, linux/alpha, solaris/sparc Possible paper: 1.5 weeks - benchmark GRAS, TCP (NWS), globus, MPI, CORBA, and show the benefit of SNWF Milestone 3 (GRAS 1): 2 weeks (end Feb) - modules (logs, manage, token ring, bw) - cleanups, documentation ----[ NWS ]---------------------------------------- Milestone 1: 3 days - wrapper over GRAS replacing the portability lib -