[kepler-dev] semantics

[Ferdinando Villa]

Something like "globe" instead of grid would remind us of our screwed-up
planet while still suggesting connectivity. I know, FooGlobe still doesn't
sound good, but probably already better than Kepler Data Grid :)

ferdinando 

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> Deana Pennington
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> Subject: Re: [kepler-dev] semantics
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> Would you like to propose an alternative term that adequately 
> captures the concept of accessing distributed resources?
> 
> Mladen Vouk wrote:
> 
> > I would steer away from term Grid
> > Mladen
> >
> > Ilkay Altintas wrote:
> >
> >>How about "Kepler Data Grid"?
> >>
> >>Another thing that needs to be decided is the names/definitions of 
> >>different users and a glossary of terms on functionality.
> >>
> >>-ilkay
> >>
> >>On Jan 19, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Deana Pennington wrote:
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>>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 from within Kepler, subsets of which can always use more 
> >>>specific terms (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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