[jsdl-wg] Discussion regarding an implementation of JSDL

[Steven Newhouse]

> One of the things the Thebes consortium is working on is a job
> acceptance service that can accept jobs, translate them to DRMAA, and
> submit them to job schedulers. Our intention is to include the ability
> to accept SAML assertions to make policy decisions.

The Basic Execution Service and the HPC Basic Profile are well
established web service interfaces that take in a web service message.
Their use with other specifications to run jobs on remote computing
resources is described in the ISV Remote Computing primer
(http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/gfd.php?gfd=141) with implementations by
open source and commercial software providers. I would suggest looking
at these.

The use of DRMAA within the web service to submit to a local scheduler
is great to get portability of the web service to different schedulers.

If you have requirements beyond this you might want to look at the work
that is just starting in the OGF in the Production Grid Infrastructure
Working Group - http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/pgi-wg. Details
of all the specifications can be found through the OGF web pages.

Steven