[DRMAA-WG] drmaa and persistent job handles

[Todd Tannenbaum]

Hi DRMAA experts -

IIRC, last time I looked into DRMAA it used ephemeral job ids - in other
words, when submitting a job via DRMAA you got back a handle to the job,
but this handle was meaningless across a restart of the application
(similar to a file descriptor). So if application X submits a job and
then application X is restarted (e.g. the submit machine is rebooted),
there was no guarantee that X could continue to monitor/manage the job.

Is the above still true?  If so, is there a well-known work-around
and/or are there plans to address the issue in a future DRMAA spec?

Thanks much,
Todd

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Todd Tannenbaum                       University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for High Throughput Computing  Department of Computer Sciences