[DRMAA-WG] Release of GridWay 5.3

[Ignacio Martin Llorente]

Dear all,

On behalf of the GridWay team I am pleased to announce that a new development release of the GridWay Metascheduler is now available
for download. The new release provides DRMAA bindings in Perl, Ruby and Python, and DRMAA binding v1.0. See below the release info.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Ignacio

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GridWay 5.3
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ENHANCEMENTS:

Since GridWay 5.2, development activities have been focused on easing the integration of GridWay with major Grid infrastructures:
EGEE, TeraGrid and OSG. In this new development release, GridWay 5.3, support to access the NorduGrid infrastructure is also
included. Also, new bindings for DRMAA and support for DAGMAN workflows are included.

- Integration with major Grid Infrastructures
Following the trend from previous releases, GridWay 5.3 is capable of integrate with another major infrastructure: NorduGrid.
Drivers for Execution and Transfer are included in this release.

- New DRMAA bindings for scripting languages
Previous GridWay releases come with support for C and Java bindings implementing the DRMAA standard. Scripting languages are
interesting from the point of view of rapid application prototyping among others. From dsa-research.org we believe this to be an
interesting aspect, and that is why GridWay 5.3 includes bindings to access the DRMAA standard from scripting languages such as
Perl, Ruby and Python.

- Implementation of DRMAA Java Binding v1.0
GridWay now provides support for DRMAA Java Binding v1.0. DRAMAA Java bindings are also included to support legacy applications.

- Support for DAGMAN workflows
There is an increasing interest from the scientific community to be able to run complex workflows on a Grid environment. An almost
de-facto standard to represent DAG workflows is Condor DAGMAN. In this development release GridWay includes a new workflow launcher
(gwdag) that handles this kind of workflows.

BUGS SOLVED:

5497: Support to define MPI jobs in the DRMAA JAVA bindings
http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/globus/show_bug.cgi?id=5497

5663: Autotools configuration for database is broken
http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/globus/show_bug.cgi?id=5663

5677: Thread blocking occurs when recovering the scheduler
http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/globus/show_bug.cgi?id=5677


RELEVANT LINKS:
- Functionality: http://www.gridway.org/doku.php?id=about:functionality
- Benefits: http://www.gridway.org/doku.php?id=about:benefits
- Release Notes and Download: http://www.gridway.org/doku.php?id=software:download
- Documentation: http://www.gridway.org/doku.php?id=documentation:howto

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Ignacio M. Llorente, Full Professor (Catedratico): http://dsa-research.org/doku.php?id=people:llorente
DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org
Globus Alliance: http://www.GridWay.org