> I'm not talking about giving anything we demonstrate directly to users. Some
> of the demos can have some special setup e.g. using NFS to share files at a
> common mount point.
OK it's more a question of networking. Besides the demo's themselves we
did talk to some influential astronomers about our goals and direction,
work-in-progress, and what they could expect (or perhaps not expect if
Starlink was exterminated). I see us doing more of that particularly
directed to grids and what we can offer to AstroGrid.
> As for visual impact - for the JavaSpaces demo Alan wrote a monitor which
> showed which numbers of apps running on different machines and how an extra
> machine plugged in automatically appeared on the monitor. I guess it's
> easier to do that with JavaSpaces than with Web Services.
I've never seen this running. It presumably shows the principle. We
can couch it in the context of very large mosaic reductions, which would
be still too long for a demonstration, although I do have some example
mosaic data from Dave Gilbank.
Malcolm
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