[jsdl-wg] Discussion regarding an implementation of JSDL

[Arnie Miles]

Steven,

Thank you for your reply. I'll study your reference. In the meanwhile, 
could you give me pointers to the implementations you've referred to?

Thanks!
Arnie

Steven Newhouse wrote:
>> 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
>
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