Gary Van Domselaar wrote: > > I mentioned IBM's Data Explorer back in the fall. It is a very > sophisticated and powerful data visualization environment. I can't find the message or recall having heard of it :-) Are you still shooting heroin, Gary? ;-) > "The client process is the graphics user interface and it is always > operate on a workstation. The server process does all of the computation; > it may reside on the same of different workstation" Yes. > "The server is controlled via the data flow executive, which determines > what tasks need to be executed base upon user requests and schedules > their execution." Yep. > "The executive accepts a well-defined protocol (a script language), which > the user interface generates based upon input it receives. The executive > can be operated independently of the user interface via the > scripting/programming language." Yepper. > Considering that Loci's and OpenDX's architectures are so closely aligned, > and that we have yet to hammer out the details of the 'executive', I think > we would be wise to take a peek at their code. Agreed :-) Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+