[ogsa-hpcp-wg] GridSAM status

[vesso at doc.ic.ac.uk]

All,

Service instance 1.
The first GridSAM instance(the one with '/ForkDRM/' in the URL) I made  
available a few days ago will be executing jobs through forked  
processes on the same host the service is running. This instance does  
not support the HPCP Credentials extension and while it does support  
DataStaging extension the JSDL provided does not make any use of it.
Earlier this evening, someone tried testing against this instance with  
a JSDL having <StagingSchedule> element in it. The job failed as the  
parser recognised this element was not part of the JSDL schema. To  
work around this - enter a dummy namespace for this element so the  
parser accepts it as a JSDL schema extension <StagingSchedule  
xmlns='http://dummy/namespace'> - or better yet - use only the JSDL  
I've provided.
**!!**To help with debugging - you might want to put a unique value in  
the JSDL's <ProjectName>  element, such as your name for example.

You can view the output of your successfully executed job by pointing  
a web browser to  
"https://gridsam.lesc.doc.ic.ac.uk:18443/sc07demo/spool"



Service instance 2.
I've added a link on the wiki for one more GridSAM service instance.
The service(the one with '/GlobusDRM/' in the URL), through its  
GlobusDRM connector, will be submitting jobs to a Globus portal to the  
UK National Grid Service resources. This instance supports DataStaging  
and Credentials extensions. The new JSDL provided specifies 3  
different sets of credentials:
* one required to submit/execute the job to/on the NGS resources.
* one required to stage-in/out files from/to an UVA FTP server.
* one required to stage-out/ files to an Imperial SFTP server.
**!!!** NOTE **!!!**
Since the same user accounts will be used for staging-out files, MAKE  
SURE you change the name of the output(staged-out) files in the JSDL  
before you submit the job - example:
from:
"sftp://gridsam.lesc.doc.ic.ac.uk/sftp/out/enter_file_name_here.out"
to:
"sftp://gridsam.lesc.doc.ic.ac.uk/sftp/out/vesso.out"
Otherwise we will be overwriting each other's job submission results.

You can view the output files staged-out to the Imperial's SFTP server  
by pointing a web browser to  
"https://gridsam.lesc.doc.ic.ac.uk:18443/sc07demo/sftp/out"


GridSAM Client tests with other services.
So far I have successfully tested against:
* UNICORE service - completely
* UVA - partial success
* Platform - partial success

--Vesso