[gridcpr-wg] Use Cases for Grid Checkpoint and Recovery - Comments

[Paul Stodghill]

Thanks for your comment.

guru prasad wrote:

> *The NULL computation will work.* Since I found no mention of it I 
> thought we are concentrating on only applications with computations. 
> Sorry, I should have thought about it.
>
> */Paul Stodghill <stodghil at cs.cornell.edu>/* wrote:
>
>     I'm not sure what difference this makes. For instance, for the
>     applications that you have in mind, what is the difference between
>     modelling them as having a null computation vs. no computation at all?
>
>     Thanks for your comment.
>
>     guru prasad wrote:
>
>>      
>>     1) Figure 1 and lines 253 - 255
>>
>>     *The first thing to notice **is that the box labelled
>>     "Application" contains a box labelled "Computation". Some of the
>>     use-cases envisions an existing computation being directly
>>     modified to interact with a GridCPR system.*
>>
>>      
>>
>>     This places an assumption on the application to have
>>     "computation" as a part of the application. But when I think of
>>     in general and the applied fields of Grid Computing, not all the
>>     applications have computing as a part of it. (Eg. An application
>>     to collect all the x-ray of a user from a remote
>>     server, diagnosis report from yet another and consolidate both to
>>     produce a report and submit it to a third location).
>>
>>      
>>
>>     I am not sure if we are not handling such applications. But I
>>     feel we need to define a solid boundary for "application" type.
>>
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