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Places
to Contribute to Access Grid Development
Getting involved in some aspect
of Access Grid Development is easy! There are currently a four places
to plug in and start contributing work towards the Access Grid. They are:
- Core Toolkit
- Most of the core toolkit work is happening
at Argonne National Laboratory; the Futures Laboratory is very interested
in collaborating with others in the development of this toolkit. For
more information contact the Futures Lab AG Developers at mailto:[email protected].
- Basic and/or Extended Services
- Basic and/or Extended Services are the
core set of services that Access Grid users should have at their disposal
to gain at least minimal use of the Access Grid. We consider basic
services to include:
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Text - This provides
basic communication and awareness functionality.
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Audio - Full Duplex,
Echo Free audio are a must for real collaboration.
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Video - H.261 is a
minimum requirement for getting a sense of others.
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Monitoring - Actively
monitoring the network to keep the user aware of any problems.
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Network Management
- Integrated support for bridging allows future development
of dynamic fault-tolerance so that collaborations are less affected
by network performance.
- Application Services
- Application Services are an exciting area
where developers can try out new collaborative application design.
The Access Grid provides much of the meta-information about users,
security, authorization, and data persistence - now application developers
can leverage that infrastructure to design next generation applications.
- Network Services
- Network Services are another exciting
place for development, Network Services expose rich functionality
below the user level, in the middleware of the Access Grid. There
are many opportunities to enable more interoperability, support multi-modality
and cross-modality interactions, and many others.
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Toolkit
