[DRMAA-WG] Conference call minutes - Sep 15th 2009

[Daniel Gruber]

Attendees:
   Peter Troeger
   Dan Templeton
   Hrabri Rajic
   Daniel Gruber

1. Meeting secretary: Daniel G. 

2. Last meeting minutes accepted 

3. Sun HPC workshop in Regensburg (Germany) 
   -> Peters presentation of current status was a success
   -> People were interested in the new features 
   -> Feedback: Request for a Fortran binding 
   -> Presentation is online on drmaa.org (current spec will follow 
      in order to make current status more transparent)
   
  Additional ideas; Putting the most important language bindings 
  into root specification (Java, C). 


MonitoringSession: 
 -> Information of DRM itself
 -> Resource monitoring 
 -> Update google spread sheet: 

What are the basic units of monitoring? 
- Properties that are existing across all sessions 
- Cluster with static list of machine names (in SGE a cell with policies, resource quotas)
- Jobs
- Machines 

Information is organized in key-value pairs.

In order to find a common subset of resources which are available on 
all DRMs we need to fill out the spread sheet! TBD

(Additional ideas: hostgroup for submission and cluster is a hostgroup 
which can be organized hierarchical)

How to organize compute power? Number of processors (physical/cores); Current load (total machine load 
                               versus normalized machine load (per processor).
How to organize memory? Memory capacity, physical memory, virtual memory 

TBD: Proposal for machine monitoring 

Usage record working group could be helpful to find 
values for the job info extension.

4. Next meeting: JobTemplate and JobInfo