Blog from May, 2010

Work Completed

• Marketmaker
  1. Finished MM-165, I wrapped the WMS Post class of OpenLayers for gwt-openlayers that allows the use of HTTP Post.

• KISTI
  1. Put together documentation on the wiki site outlining a possible data model for the project, including the usage of tupelo beans and views, some of it based on Al's PTPFlow and some possible improved views.
  2. Started to create the base plugins for the KISTI project (RCP, UI, Core and test plugins).

Work Planned

• Work on the KISTI project
• Work on Marketmaker project

Comments

This week went as planned. Next week I will be meeting with Rob, Luigi, Al and Jong to discuss using tupelo/bard for KISTI and some data scenarios we will encounter using the HPC machines.

Work Completed

• KISTI
  1. Worked on submitting parameterized workflows with PTPFlow, I sent Al Rossi my workflows and error logs because I was having issues with using the parameterized option. I made some progress, but Al will need to look into some exceptions I was getting.
  2. Made some minor edits to the KISTI storyboard for and we submitted for Dr. Nam's review so we can move forward.

• Marketmaker
  1. Closed duplicate issues
  2. Tested Marketmaker with the latest version of OpenLayers for bugs (v2.9.1)
  3. MM-146 - CSS file had broken entries, this is fixed
  4. MM-149 - Merged the latest changes/fixes from the GWT-OpenLayers project with our version of GWT-OpenLayers
  5. MM-151 - Jong resolved this issue, the Advanced tab was next to the Search tab and it appeared as the advanced options of the search, when it was the layer controls, I provided feedback and some suggestions.
  6. MM-152 - The background layer control was out of date with what was being displayed, google street maps were displayed, but the control said hybrid was.
  7. MM-153 - The Navigation toolbar initially did not display in Chrome browser, although it displayed properly in other browsers. This is fixed.
• Marketmaker 0.5 beta was released and upgraded to 2.9.1 of OpenLayers, I cam currently working on an issue that appears only in IE-8 where selection of census tracts does not clear properly, MM-156.

Work Planned

• Work on KISTI project
• Work on MarketMaker project with a planned release of 0.5 beta on Friday May 14, 2010.

Comments

This week went as planned, I will continue to work on the Marketmaker bug MM-156, test the new release and work KISTI next week after our storyboard has been reviewed.

Work Completed

• KISTI Project
  1. Created a storyboard using Wireframe Sketcher for the KISTI project. The storyboard included screenshots and text detailing some potential User Interfaces and text describing their functionality.
  2. Received preliminary feedback from Al Rossi regarding storyboard
  3. Jong and I will try to meet with Al and possibly Luigi and/or Rob this week to discuss data management issues when running jobs on the supercomputers and how we can utilize tupelo to begin transitioning some of the PTPFlow stuff to use Tupelo, where it makes sense with the final goal of having the KISTI project use as much from Tupelo as we can provide to enhance their experience and capabilities.
• MarketMaker - Met with Jong and Luigi using Google chat and Dimdim to discuss the MarketMaker plan to move forward.

Work Planned

• Work on KISTI project, develop some new UI concepts based on experiences with PTPFlow, MAEviz and discussions with Jong on how we expect users to work with the new software.

Comments

This week I was focused on creating a storyboard for the KISTI project so we can solicit feedback from Al Rossi and KISTI. Next week I will continue to focus on KISTI and Marketmaker splitting my time as Jong requires it.

Work Completed

• KISTI Project
  1. Obtained the CFD source code from Jong and successfully launched jobs using Globus on the Teragrid machines.
  2. Installed PTPFlow and started learning how to use it to launch jobs on Teragrid. I ran into an issue where an Ubuntu update broke the ability to launch the RMI service of PTPFlow. I debugged the process and sent my results to Al Rossi. I eventually had to roll back the Java update that Ubuntu did because something had changed and I could not track it down. Al knows about it and hopefully can shed some light on the issue this week.
  3. Added more text to the KISTI document of Use Cases after meeting with Jong. I also added some screens using Wireframe Sketcher to capture the text describing starting a new scenario/project and what basic steps the user should be guided through based on my experience using PTPFlow and any difficulties I ran into.

Work Planned

• Work on KISTI project and launching jobs using Globus command line and PTPFlow

Comments

This week went as planned. Next week Jong and I will discuss with Al some of the issues we had running PTPFlow and launching the CFD job using PTPFlow.