[jsdl-wg] JSDL vs NorduGrid xRSL: a comparison (fwd)

[Ali Anjomshoaa]

Forwarding bounced mail on behalf of Oxana Smirnova, NorduGrid.

Ali

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 14:52:43 +0200
From: Oxana Smirnova <oxana.smirnova at hep.lu.se>
To: jsdl-wg at gridforum.org, egee-project-crm <egee-project-crm at cern.ch>,
     NorduGrid Discussion <nordugrid-discuss at nordugrid.org>
Subject: JSDL vs NorduGrid xRSL: a comparison

Dear all,

as agreed by the Compute Resource Management Interfaces (CRM) initiative, JSDL has been evaluated by the participating Grid system experts against job description languages presently in use. NorduGrid's ARC uses extended Globus RSL (xRSL), which can be quite easily mapped to the POSIX Application of JSDL. However, there are several elements that are missing from JSDL but have been proven to be essential for proper Grid job description and execution - at least from the NorduGrid perspective. JSDL appears to be a proper framework for a more advanced Grid job description, provided it can be extended to:

a) accomodate more elements (most notably, Run-time Environment for an application)
b) enable multiple job definitions in a single "script"/file
c) allow for alternative parameter requests (e.g., alternative OS, environment, host etc)

A detailed comparison and related notes can be downloaded at

 http://www.nordugrid.org/documents/jsdl-vs-xrsl-revised2.sxw

Hopefully, this can be taken as an input for further JSDL development. NorduGrid so far did not participate in JSDL-WG activities, but can contribute in future, if the WG members find it useful.

Best regards,
Oxana Smirnova, for the NorduGrid collaboration