Hi Ketan, I've been working on the Kepler documentation and just wanted to add (a little belatedly) that I would welcome comments for improving it. If you come across docs in the nightly build that are ambiguous or problematic, please let me know. Thank you,kirsten
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:57:06 -0700> From: berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu> To: > ketan at polytech.unice.fr> CC: Kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org> Subject: > Re: [kepler-users] The most impressive thing you've done with Kepler> > Hi > Ketan,> > That document is very old now. All of the documentation is now in > the > actor moml files in the src/actors directory and can be accessed via > the > canvas of kepler. I would recommend you try one of our nightly builds > > available here: http://www.kepler-project.org/nightly/zip/> > We're hoping to > have a release in the next couple months but we don't > have a definite date > yet.> > chad> > Ketan Maheshwari wrote:> > Hi Chad> > Is this the latest > version of documentation:> > > http://rainbow.polytech.unice.fr/~ketan/files/Actor_Docs_for_Users_In_Progress.pdf > > > > > If so, I find many actors description ambiguous or not available. It > > > will surely be useful if some example for unconventional actors' usage > > > is provided.> > As for version: the about dialog says this: beta1 May 2006> > > However, last I heard from one of the developers that this dialog was > > > not updated with version and does not show correct version.> > Regards> > > Ketan> > > > Chad Berkley wrote:> >> Hi Ketan,> >>> >> What version of Kepler > are you using? We've spent the last year and a > >> half reworking all of the > actor documentation. You should be able to > >> right click on any actor and > view the documentation for that actor. > >> Are you not seeing that > documentation?> >>> >> chad> >>> >> Ketan Maheshwari wrote:> >>> One more > limitation, I feel is with the documentation of actor's. > >>> There are many > actors available, however, the information related to > >>> their usage is > limited. I am sure it is quite a lot of work but that > >>> will certainly > add a lot of value to Kepler's usability.> >>> Regards> >>> Ketan> >>>> >>> > Ketan Maheshwari wrote:> >>>> Hi> >>>>> >>>> -> I find the heavy-weight > user-interface one of the limitations in > >>>> Kepler. Every time I open a > new workflow, it creates a new instance > >>>> of Kepler rather than just > opening the workflow in the existing > >>>> interface. Further, if I exit > from one window, all windows are closed.> >>>> -> While running the web/grid > services, it does not identify the > >>>> methods available by parsing the > WSDL and the user have to specify > >>>> them, I think this capability should > be easy to implement.> >>>>> >>>> Regards> >>>> Ketan> >>>>> >>>> Ilkay > Altintas wrote:> >>>> > >>>>> Dear All,> >>>>>> >>>>> I would like to collect > some data to understand the current > >>>>> capabilities and limitations of > Kepler.> >>>>> I'd appreciate greatly if you could send me some information > on > >>>>> your current and past Kepler workflows in terms of:> >>>>> - > biggest number of actors> >>>>> - longest duration of run> >>>>> - data&file > management and job submission capability> >>>>> - technological uniqueness> > >>>>> - etc...> >>>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, there's no Kepler badge of honor > to responders, but > >>>>> I'll make the interesting summary available to > everyone in a few > >>>>> days. ;-)> >>>>>> >>>>> Thanks a million on > advance!> >>>>> -ilkay> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> -- > >>>>> Ilkay ALTINTAS> >>>>> > Lab Director, Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT)> >>>>> San > Diego Supercomputer Center(SDSC), UCSD> >>>>> 9500 Gilman Drive, MC: 0505 La > Jolla, CA 92093-0505> >>>>> phone: (858) 822-5453 fax: (858) 534-8303> >>>>> > web: http://users.sdsc.edu/~altintas > >>>>> > <http://users.sdsc.edu/%7Ealtintas>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________> >>>>> > Kepler-users mailing list> >>>>> Kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org> >>>>> > http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users > > >>>>>> >>>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________> >>>> > Kepler-users mailing list> >>>> Kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org> >>>> > http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users > > >>>>> >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________> >>> > Kepler-users mailing list> >>> Kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org> >>> > http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users > > >>>> _______________________________________________> Kepler-users mailing > list> Kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org> > http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook ? together at last. ?Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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