[ogsa-hpcp-wg] Proposed rephrasing of the restriction on BES vector operations in the HPC Profile

[Peter G. Lane]

Marvin Theimer wrote:
> Hi;
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> As you may recall from the discussions at the Tokyo GGF conference, it 
> was agreed that the HPC Profile base case would be kept as simple as 
> possible in order to make it as easy as possible to create a compliant 
> BES service (and to forestall feature creep).  Among other things, that 
> meant that we agreed upon requiring the HPC Profile-compliant BES 
> services would only be required to support BES vector operations of 
> length 1.  But of course we’d like to /allow/ compliant BES services to 
> support vectors of length greater than 1 if they so desire (which we 
> expect to be the common case).
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> Enclosed is a rewording of the paragraph in section 4 of the HPC Profile 
> specification draft that restricts vector lengths of BES operations. 
>  I’ve rewritten it to clarify that vector lengths greater than 1 are 
> allowed but may result in a fault.  Please let me know if you would like 
> additional rewording to occur.  If I don’t hear any rewording 
> suggestions in the next few days then I’ll go ahead and insert the 
> rewording shown into the HPC Profile document.
> 
>  
> 
> Reworded paragraph:
> 
> The BES GetActivitiesStatus, TerminateActivities, and GetJSDLDocuments 
> operations include a vector input parameter that specifies the set of 
> activities that the operation should be applied to. A Compliant system 
> MUST be prepared to support a vector length of 1.  A Compliant system 
> SHOULD support input vector lengths greater than 1 but MAY return a 
> Not_Supported fault in response to input vector lengths greater than 1.

One minor correction: the latest BES spec replaces "GetActivitiesStatus" with "GetActivityStatuses" 
and "GetJSDLDocuments" with "GetActivityDocuments".

Peter

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> Thanks,
> 
> Marvin.
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