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Minutes of Meeting, 17/10/2000 @ 7pm. |
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Location: 2 Mead Way |
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Present: ab11, pjm2, tdb1 |
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Absent: ajm4 |
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Initial discussions surrounded the fact that iau wants a |
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plan from us pretty soon. However, we soon digressed to the |
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other things we needed to get working on. These are as |
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follows; |
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- Produce a feature list - re: first minutes |
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- Produce an "implementation phases" document, based on the |
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feature list |
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- Prepare the above two for review by jc (and iau?) |
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- Set ourselves some rough milestones (ie. phase 3 by xmas |
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etc...) |
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- With the above in mind produce a plan for the overall |
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project and assign initial roles. |
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- Define the Interfaces of the various server classes |
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- Define the Protocols for cross-network data |
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Discussions about all of our limited knowledge of C/C++ put |
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an end to the plan that one of us could actually write all |
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the host programs :) |
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Some questions and points were raised |
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- Differences between Solaris SPARC/Intel - will program run |
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on both ? |
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- The "Client Interface" in the server - how much "thinking" |
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will it do, and how much will be left to the client. |
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(Thinking about bottlenecks). |
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- Database, need to get a machine sorted, and pick database. |
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- Would multicasting work for server to client |
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communications ? |
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Next the document on the Implementation Phases was drawn up. |
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It's only provisional at this stage, but gives us some |
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initial ideas. It was noted that by using "phases" we can |
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have milestones/breaks for testing, documentation |
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and review. This would ensure that we keep things under |
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control, and don't get swamped in code. It was also |
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mentioned that using phases would help to keep the whole |
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project in sync - ie. the server code would not run off |
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ahead of the host code. |
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pjm2 leaves at 7:45pm, whilst ab11 & tdb1 continue with |
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implementation phases document. |
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The final Implementation Phases document is seperately |
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stored. |
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Meeting is concluded at 8:30pm to watch MIB. |
