[kepler-dev] semantics

[Mladen Vouk]

Kepler DRA or Distributed Resource Access
or Kepler (or some other term- Workflow?) Access to Distributed 
Resources (ADR)?
or perhaps just Distributed Resources?
or an acronym along those lines.
This way we do not get pained with the "grid" brush
The fortunes of grid seem to be fickle
:-)
mav

Deana Pennington wrote:

>Would you like to propose an alternative term that adequately captures 
>the concept of accessing distributed resources?
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>Mladen Vouk wrote:
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>>I would steer away from term Grid
>>Mladen
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>>Ilkay Altintas wrote:
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>>>How about "Kepler Data Grid"?
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>>>Another thing that needs to be decided is the names/definitions of  
>>>different users and a glossary of terms on functionality.
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>>>-ilkay
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>>>On Jan 19, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Deana Pennington wrote:
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>>>>I'm working on the Getting Started with Kepler document that Sam and
>>>>Laura started.  I'm trying to make it more generic, less specific to
>>>>ecology since other sciences are now heavily represented as well.  I
>>>>think it's time to settle on a generic term for the Grid being accessed
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>>>>from within Kepler, subsets of which can always use more specific terms
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>>>>(e.g. EcoGrid).  My suggestion would be to go with something simple  
>>>>like
>>>>Science Grid, or SciGrid.  Thoughts?  Are there other terms that we  
>>>>need
>>>>to resolve before the documentation effort gets going in full force?
>>>>
>>>>Deana
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