1. GridLab WP12 Mobile users support 3rd GridLab Review, Berlin 2004 Piotr Grabowski, Bartek Lewandowski www.gridlab.org Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

2. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Overview GridLab mobile scenarios GridLab mobile devices Changes from last review Current status Plans for 2004 Mobile demo scenario

3. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review GridLab mobile scenarios Applications/simulations steering Application/simulation state tracking User notifications about events Visualization for mobile users Enabling offline working practices

4. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review GridLab mobile devices Mobile phones Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) Notebooks

5. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Changes from last review Mobile client Evolving from Message Reader to Mobile Client Added visualization features Gateway Rewritten as the Gridsphere portlet Added visualization features Notification Message Box is wrapped with Web/Grid service interface

6. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Current status Mobile client J2ME midlet is running on mobile phones, PDAs and PC laptops Features: browsing notification messages, displaying visualizations Gateway Mobile Command Center acts as a gateway between mobile client and Grid services Developed as a Gridsphere portlet Notification Message Box is running as both a Java API and a Web/Gridservice Exploited by GRMS, Portal Mobile visualisation J2ME midlet intearcts via Mobile Command Center with Mobile Visualisation Service (developed by WP8)

7. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Current status Mobile Visualization Service Background Mobile client limitations Mobile user expectations concerning extra-visualization features Viz service downscales the visualizations into „mobile” format on the basis of mobile profile: screen size, color depth 2 different modes Display an downscaled images, croping images Image sequences

8. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Current status

9. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Current status Some pictures (mobile phones)

10. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Current status Some pictures (IPAQ screenshots)

11. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Current status Some pictures (PC laptop)

12. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Plans for 2004 Application/simulation steering Refining existing scenarios Extending Mobile Command Center to take advantage of Gridsphere services Extending mobile client of such features Offline working practices Refining existing scenarios Extending both the mobile client and the gateway of such features

13. GridLab WP12 (MOBILE) 3rd GridLab review Mobile demo scenario Running the same mobile application on different platforms Mobile phone (network: GPRS) PDA (network: wireless) Laptop PC (network: either wireless or wired) Browsing messages in folders Visualization Displaying images, cropping Displaying image sequences

14. Thank you! Mobile users support WP - contacts www.gridlab.org mobile@gridlab.org