[ogsa-bes-wg] Re: [jsdl-wg] Questions and potential changes to JSDL, as seen from HPC Profile point-of-view

[Donal K. Fellows]

Marvin Theimer wrote:
> If the HPC profile defines the semantics of something and the JSDL spec
> doesn't then that implies that some other profile is free to define the
> semantics differently.  Is that really what you want to allow?  That
> seems like it will invite unexpected mishaps for anyone who tries to run
> both HPC and other workloads on a grid. 

Yes, but ideally we'll be able to arrange things - maybe not in the
first iteration - so that the HPC profile is always just a restriction
of the JSDL spec. In that case, we're still all OK. It's the cases where
you (hypothetically) introduce strict semantic extensions that we'll
need to be careful in. Not that you shouldn't; they're just the places
to watch out.

As long as we keep talking to each other, we'll manage somehow. :-)

Donal.