<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Guy<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would be interested in explaining the Nesssi system. It is at <A href="http://us-vo.org/nesssi">http://us-vo.org/nesssi</A>, and is a simple and secure SOAP mechanism for initiating and monitoring asynchronous jobs on high-performance computers and grid systems.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am particularly interested in (a) discovering the kinds of long-running, high-resource services that would be useful to astronomers, and (b) standardizing a *simple* API by which asynchronous jobs can be specified, initiated, and monitored.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It would have to be your second or third session, as I cannot attend the first.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you</DIV><DIV>Roy</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">California Institute of Technology</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">626 395 3670</FONT></DIV> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>