[jsdl-wg] Discussion regarding an implementation of JSDL

[Oxana Smirnova]

Hello Arnie,

> 
> 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?
> 

One of those solutions that implement BES and JSDL (also mentioned in that document) is ARC, see e.g.

 http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/arc1/trunk/

There's no DRMAA in ARC though.

Cheers,
Oxana

> 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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