[ogsa-wg] Draft Execution Service Interface Specification

[David Snelling]

Folks,

With my Unicore hat on, I have been working with some of the Globus 
people to see if we (Unicore and Globus) can agree on a joint Job 
submit and management interface specification. The progress has been 
very good, but we are by no means finished. However, the spec is mature 
enough to open it for your input. Ian and I are acting as editors, so 
please send issues and comments at least to us.

To put this work in the current OGSA context, I see this specification 
as the WSRF OGSA Base Profile rendering of a fairly complete execution 
service interface. I don't believe it is much more complicated than the 
minimal set of capabilities needed to address the HPC use cases posted 
by Marvin. This might therefore also be the WSRF BP rendering of that 
as well (given suitable optionality at strategic places) , but more 
analysis is needed.

With respect to the OGSA-BES work, we see this as a possible next step 
for BES-like services. The corresponding factory operation in this 
specification is slightly more complex than the BES create activity 
operation, but is not intended to replace it.

I realize that the schema and WSDL sections are missing. I assure you 
that drafts of these exist, but are grossly out of phase with the main 
document. We will be working over the coming weeks to develop these.

Let us know what you think. I plan to join the EMS discussion tomorrow 
by phone and can answer questions then if people have them.

-- 

Take care:

     Dr. David Snelling < David . Snelling . UK . Fujitsu . com >
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