Collaboratory Interoperability Framework

Commercial interest in distributed computing has led to significant standardization efforts. Yet quality implementations of these standards are scarce, and those implementations that exist lack features essential for DOE applications, such as multicast, high-performance transport, and implementations on parallel computers. Because projects don't have the resources to produce high-performance implementations of standards themselves, mutually incompatible software solutions are used on different DOE collaboratory projects.

The goal of this project is to develop a unifying infrastructure for collaboratory applications, with a view to increasing capabilities available to developers, that supports DOE collaboratory development. This infrastructure will provide essential distributed computing functions and a basis for development and widespread deployment of collaboratory components.

The objectives of this project are to

• Increase capabilities available to developers
• Create standard interfaces to promote code reuse
• Reduce deployment costs at sites
• Build on existing systems

This project is a collaboration among Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories.

For more info, see

• Project status: Argonne National Laboratory (May 2000)
• Project status: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Project review: Argonne National Laboratory
• Project review: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Project review: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• DOE2000 Collaboratory Interoperability Framework Project