[drmaa-wg] [Fwd: Re: New Condor DRMAA library]

[Peter Troeger]

FYI - the new Condor DRMMA library will be released in December. We
might want to use the next weeks for GFD-E writing and improvements of
the DRMAA test suite.

Dan, Andreas - please go to

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/condor-ext/condor_src/drmaa/test/

and figure out if the latest DRMAA test suite still works with SGE.

Thank you and regards,
Peter.

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Betreff: Re: New Condor DRMAA library
Datum: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:42:08 -0600
Von: Erik Paulson <epaulson at cs.wisc.edu>
An: Peter Troeger <peter.troeger at hpi.uni-potsdam.de>,	Todd Tannenbaum
<tannenba at cs.wisc.edu>,	Miron Livny <miron at cs.wisc.edu>
Referenzen: <20050525165549.GA6057 at cobalt.cs.wisc.edu>
<436A36B3.4000909 at hpi.uni-potsdam.de>

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:11:31PM +0100, Peter Troeger wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> > We're OK with the DRMAA library going into sourceforge and development 
> > going there. We'd like to be able to include your changes into future Condor
> > releases, so it'd be most helpful if you could post diffs to the Condor
> > releases (future Condor releases will have a src/drmaa directory, which will
> > have what's the the contrib tarball now)
> 
> I would like to announce that the new Condor DRMAA library is now in a
> stable state. According to the DRMAA test suite, the library is
> feature-complete and 'bug-free' ;-) . I am still aware of one missing
> mandatory feature, but I plan to discuss with the DRMAA group if this is
> really needed as mandatory functionality (remote sources for input files).
> 

Great!

> I switched to an autoconf-based setup. I tested everything on MacOS X
> and Debian Sarge, but the generated Makefile *should* also work on other
> platforms. Please let me know how to go on from here. I could send you
> diffs and a generated Makefile. Anyway since I have no details about
> your UWCS-internal build process, I fear that something will not work on
> your side. Are you able to integrate the configure / make call in case
> of an internal build ?
> 

What we'll probably do is change how we ship the DRMAA library and just
ship your version - we'll precompile it and put libdrmaa.so in the
tree, but we'll include your source tarfile, so people can rerun ./configure
and rebuild it for their platform/compiler/etc.

It's not going to make the next version of Condor, because the code freeze
for that was 2 days ago, but it should be OK for the release after that,
probably around the beginning of December.

-Erik

> BTW, DRMAA expects the library to be a shared one. My version of the
> Makefile therefore build both a static version (for backward
> compatibility) and a shared library. Another major change is that all
> jobs are now submitted in vanilla universe.
> 
> The Windows version is on the agenda, but currently there is not even a
> NMAKE file. The code is prepared for being compiled under Win32, but I
> expect a lot of remaining bugs in this environment.
> 
> I would be happy if the new library will be available with the next
> Condor version. The release is a precondition for DRMAA working group to
> take the final step in the GGF standardization process, which demands 2
> independent compliant versions of the spec.
> 
> Thank you and regards,
> Peter.
> 
> P.S. Nicholas did a great job. I had no problem to understand the code
> he developed so far.
>