[drmaa-wg] DRMAA for Apple Xgrid -- sponsored by Google!

[Andreas Haas]

Great news!

Andreas

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 00:39:19 -0700
From: Ed Baskerville <lists at edbaskerville.com>
To: xgrid-users at lists.apple.com
Subject: Re: [Xgrid] Proposal: Parallel Parameter Sweeps on Grids

Hi again,

I just received word that Google has accepted my Summer of Code
application for GridSweeper--thanks much to those of you that gave me
feedback on the outline.

For those of you that are interested, I'll be tracking the project's
development on a blog, bug-tracker, and Subversion repository hosted
here:

http://code.edbaskerville.com/

I'll certainly bring thoughts about the Xgrid/DRMAA component of the
project back here soon.

--Ed

On Apr 25, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Ed Baskerville wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm planning to submit a proposal to Google's Summer of Code to
> build a system for running parameter sweeps of computer models on
> grids. I built something like this for the Xgrid Technology
> Preview, but never updated it. I'm now trying to build something
> that will integrate with Xgrid as well as other grid systems (Grid
> Engine, etc.).
>
> This project is mostly targeted at the agent-based modeling
> community, but I'm sure there are people on this list with other
> kinds of models where searching a parameter space is relevant.
>
> Furthermore, rather than implementing this directly with multiple
> grid system APIs, I'm planning to write it once, in DRMAA. To get
> it to work with Xgrid, then, I'm going to also have to write that
> DRMAA-Xgrid interface layer we were talking about not too long ago.
> That piece, I imagine, will be useful to many more of you.
>
> In order to put together the best proposal I can, and in order to
> jumpstart community involvement, I've posted a draft outline on my
> new software development blog in the hopes of getting feedback from
> anyone here that's interested:
>
> http://code.edbaskerville.com/2006/04/25/gridsweeper-proposal/
>
> If you have any thoughts about this project, please leave them in
> the comments section on the blog post. If I get the funding, I
> imagine we'll have plenty of discussions on this list about the
> DRMAA-Xgrid interface. I hope this will be useful to a lot of people.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ed
>
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