[drmaa-wg] New Condor DRMAA library

[Tim Harsch]

Cool.  Maybe I can work on my part for Christmas vacation...
did I really just say that? ;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Troeger" <peter.troeger at hpi.uni-potsdam.de>
To: "Tim Harsch" <harsch1 at llnl.gov>
Cc: "Rajic, Hrabri" <hrabri.rajic at intel.com>; "DRMAA Working Group" 
<drmaa-wg at gridforum.org>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [drmaa-wg] New Condor DRMAA library


> The Condor guys promised to include it in Condor 6.7.14, which might 
> become a christmas present ;-) ...
>
> Regards,
> Peter.
>
> Am 07.11.2005 um 18:58 schrieb Tim Harsch:
>
>> This is great Peter, thank you.  Let me know, where the Condor code  is 
>> that includes the new DRMAA shared library and I will try to  update 
>> Schedule::DRMAAc.
>>
>> All:  Note that I will probably have to do this on my own time  since I 
>> am currently on different project funding than when I  created this 
>> module... meaning, be forgiving if I am a bit slow  about it...  :-)
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rajic, Hrabri" 
>> <hrabri.rajic at intel.com>
>> To: "Peter Troeger" <peter.troeger at hpi.uni-potsdam.de>
>> Cc: "DRMAA Working Group" <drmaa-wg at gridforum.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:17 AM
>> Subject: RE: [drmaa-wg] New Condor DRMAA library
>>
>>
>> Congratulations Peter!!
>>
>> This is wonderful news.  I would encourage our Perl and Python experts
>> to give it a try.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Hrabri
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-drmaa-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-drmaa-wg at ggf.org] On  Behalf
>> Of
>>> Peter Troeger
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:12 AM
>>> To: epaulson at cs.wisc.edu
>>> Cc: DRMAA Working Group; njgeib at wisc.edu
>>> Subject: [drmaa-wg] New Condor DRMAA library
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> 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 ?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
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