[DRMAA-WG] DRMAAv2 C binding - "DRMAA2_TRUE64"?

[Rayson Ho]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Peter Tröger <peter at troeger.eu> wrote:
> That's a funny one ...
>
> It's the perfect time for such comments. We are still waiting for the OGF
> officials to start the public comment period for the document. In this
> phase, we need the community feedback to show a larger interest in the spec.

I have three more issues:

1) Mac OS and Mac OS X are 2 different platforms. Mac OS is the much
older OS that is not supported anymore, and Mac OS X is the one that
is based on the Darwin & Unix kernel.

May be we should change:

DRMAA2_MACOS -> DRMAA2_MACOSX

Even Apple sw_vers tool prints Mac OS X as the product name:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/sw_vers.1.html


2) We have x86 and the 64-bit version x64, and we also have PPC &
PPC64, SPARC & SPARC64.

But where is the 64-bit version of ARM (DRMAA2_ARM)?

We (the Open Grid Scheduler project) added support for ARM since Open
Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine 2011.11, and we think ARM will be used by
lots more sites when 64-bit ARM hits the market - note that the 64-bit
ARM architecture was announced last year.

Also, China developed a series of 64-bit MIPS processors called
Loongson, and 64-bit MIPS is manufactured by other companies as well -
to keep the architecture selection consistent, shouldn't we also have
DRMAA2_MIPS & DRMAA2_MIPS64?


3) DRMAA2_DATA_SEG_SIZE - the data segment does not change when a
process runs, as the data segment contains global & static (and common
in Fortran) variables. I can't think of anyone who explicitly wanted
to limit the size of the data segment.

What we do need is a limit for the Heap (sbrk(), malloc(), C++'s new,
etc) - this is the memory we care about.

IMO, we should change the name to DRMAA2_HEAP_SIZE

Rayson

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>
> I will post the link if it is available. Thanks for your review !
>
> Best regards,
> Peter.
>
>
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>> Rayson
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>> Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine
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>> Scalable Grid Engine Support Program
>> http://www.scalablelogic.com/
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>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Peter Tröger<peter at troeger.eu>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> the DRMAAv2 C binding is now in final draft state. Attached you can find
>>> the annotated and the official version of the specification, as well as the
>>> raw header file.
>>>
>>> Please provide your final comments on the mailing list until *April 22nd*
>>> (this Sunday). In case, we will set up a conf call for last discussions.
>>> Otherwise, the document will enter the OGF document process on next Monday.
>>>
>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>>
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