[jsdl-wg] The GridWay Metascheduler now provides support for OGF standard JSDL

[Ignacio Martin Llorente]

Dear friends,

A new stable release of the GridWay meta-scheduler (now a Globus project) is
available for download (see below the release announcement). 

Please note that GridWay provides support for OGF standard JSDL. See Section
4 of the User Guide at http://www.gridway.org/documentation/guides.php

Sincerely, 

Ignacio M. Llorente
GridWay Project Chair

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NEW RELEASE OF THE GRIDWAY META-SCHEDULER 

The GridWay Project is pleased to announce that a new release (5.2) of the
GridWay meta-scheduler is available for download under the terms of the
Apache License, Version 2.0. This is the first GridWay release since it
escalated to a full Globus project. 

MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Support for OGF standard JSDL
- State-of-the-art scheduling policies, comprising job prioritization
policies (fixed priority, urgency, share, deadline and waiting-time) and
resource prioritization policies (fixed priority, usage, failure and rank)
- Support for the execution of MPI jobs in a remote resource
- Test suite
- Installation based on auto-tools

FIXED BUGS:
- Bugs fixed in GridWay 5.2: 4925, 5001, 5003, 4919 and 5010. 

RELEVANT LINKS:
- Functionality: http://www.gridway.org/about/functionality.php
- Benefits: http://www.gridway.org/about/benefits.php
- Release Notes and Download: http://www.gridway.org/software/download.php
- Documentation: http://www.gridway.org/documentation/guides.php 
- Flyer: http://www.gridway.org/files/GridWay5.2_Flier.pdf


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