[DRMAA-WG] Meeting Minutes - Conference call -Mar 31th -

[Daniel Templeton]

Did you also want to add the discussion at the end about extending 
drmaa_wait()?

Daniel

Peter Tröger wrote:
> Participants in the call: Hrabri, Daniel T., Peter
>
> Meeting minutes from Feb 17th were accepted.
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>   
>> 1. Meeting secretary for this meeting?
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> Peter.
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>> 2. Job sub-state data type - final voting:
>> http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/drmaa-wg/2009-February/001007.html
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> Decision for object / void pointer approach. The returned data  
> structure can be defined by the language binding or the  
> implementation, as long as the jobStatus() signature contains a  
> generic pointer type.
>
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>> 3. Partial time stamp replacement:
>> http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/drmaa-wg/2009-February/001008.html
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> Decision for replacement by RFC822 strings.
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>> 4. TERMINATED vs. FAILED state discussion:
>> http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/drmaa-wg/2009-March/001012.html
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> Option 2 from the original mail is now highly preferred. TERMINATED  
> state should express that an external entity (e.g. user or DRM system)  
> stopped the job before finishing. For POSIX-aligned systems, this  
> could be formulated as reception of a signal by "the job". In  
> contrast, FAILED state now expresses that the application stopped on  
> its own before finishing. For POSIX-aligned systems, this could be  
> formulated as reception of a signal "by the job's application process".
>
> We ask for comments from PBS and LSF experts (FedStage ?!?). Do these  
> systems provide enough error information to distinguish between these  
> two states  ? For SGE and Condor, Dan and Peter already agreed.
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> This decision also has some implications on the JobInfo structure, the  
> job state flow and the error conditions for job templates.
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>> 5. Discussion Kick-Off: Remodeling the JobInfo interface
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> New attribute for job state at the time of querying, since  
> "terminatingSignal" now only makes sense in the FAILED state.
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