[DRMAA-WG] Meeting Minutes OGF-42, Day 1

[Peter Tröger]

Dear Bruno,

thanks for your feedback, we always need encouraged people to join the DRMAA working group.

> I am the maintainer of a PBS Plug-in for Jenkins. It uses a custom PBS Java API at the moment, but users asked for a generic grid computing plug-in for Jenkins, supporting different vendors.
> 
> Maybe I can help with the Java binding if necessary, with testing, reviewing, writing docs, etc. We are deciding whether to wait for DRMAA v2, or write our own little common API in Java for PBS, SGE, etc.

We spent several years on defining an API that fits to the majority of cluster products today and tomorrow, so using the DRMAA2 spec may save you some thinking time. Please note also that many features of DRMAA2 are optional, so you can start small and extend your implementations step-by-step. 

Univa Grid Engine 8.2 is now supporting DRMAA2 out of the box, which would allow you to implement a DRMA2 Java binding by a thin Java-to-C conversion layer for this product. If we get DRMAA2 C libraries for the other products, this layer would be re-usable (as we had it with DRMAAv1).

Including your request, I have now a number of serious demands for the Java binding spec. I will start with an initial version during the next days and keep the list informed. Testing and implementations for that would be great anyways.

Best regards,
Peter.


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