[saga-rg] ISSUE 47

[Andre Merzky]

  47) check JSDL compliance
      - TODO CHRIS/ANDRE, URGENT

Graeme sent today the message included below, which
addresses these issues.   As the saga attribute names have
been coined before JSDL was finalized, it is not surprising
that names deviate.

I propose to update the names to reflect the JSDL names
(they are well chosen I think).

Also, SAGA supports a number of attributes, which have no
equivalent in JSDL:

   * SAGA_JobState                   -> NOT SUPPORTED
   * SAGA_JobInteractive             -> NOT SUPPORTED
   * SAGA_JobContact[]               -> NOT SUPPORTED
   * SAGA_JobNotification            -> NOT SUPPORTED
   * SAGA_JobNative                  -> NOT SUPPORTED
   * SAGA_WallclockSoftLimit         -> NOT SUPPORTED
   * SAGA_JobStartTime               -> NOT SUPPORTED
   * SAGA_Deadline                   -> NOT SUPPORTED
   * SAGA_Queue                      -> NOT SUPPORTED

I am positive that we have use cases for specifying queue
and contact information.  I am not so sure about the others.

Unless someone objects, I would propose to remove those
attributes which have no JSDL equivalent, and we have no
explicit use cases for.

OTOH, Graeme points out that some JSDL attributes are
unsupported:

   * JSDL_Description                -> jsdl:Description
   * JSDL_JobAnnotation              -> jsdl:JobAnnotation
   * JSDL_JobProject                 -> jsdl:JobProject
   * JSDL_DeleteOnTermination        -> jsdl:DeleteOnTermination

Again, I think we have no use cases for those, so I think
they should be left out.

Summary:  We have following options:

  (A) leave stuff as is, and map in the implementation

  (B) update naming to reflect JSDL, and introduce the
      respective enums

  (C) remove attribs w/o JSDL pendant, unless we have an
      explicit use case

I vote vor (B) and (C).

Cheers, Andre.



Quoting [Graeme Pound] (Apr 20 2006):
> 
> Andre,
> 
> I saw that SAGA JSDL compliance was an issue on your issue list.
> 
> Here are the mappings that I am using between JobDefinition attributes 
> and JSDL elements. I am using these mappings to provide a SAGA compliant 
> interface to the GridSAM service for the OMII.
> 
> This doc is a little old. The 'SAGA_*' attributes have now lost this 
> prefix. The 'JSDL_' prefix indicates that an attribute is specific to 
> the implementation and is not part of the SAGA spec.
> 
> Graeme
> 
> 
> 
> /**
>  * A simple builder for a JSDL document.
>  *
>  * This utility produces JSDL documents based upon JSDL Specification 
> (version 1.0, draft 28).
>  * <pre>
>  * ##jsdl:Application -> jsdl-posix:POSIXApplication
>  * SAGA_JobCmd                     -> jsdl-posix:Executable
>  * SAGA_JobArgs[]                  -> jsdl-posix:Argument
>  * SAGA_JobEnv[]                   -> jsdl-posix:Environment
>  * SAGA_JobCwd                     -> jsdl-posix:WorkingDirectory
>  * SAGA_JobStdin                   -> jsdl-posix:Input
>  * SAGA_JobStdout                  -> jsdl-posix:Output
>  * SAGA_JobStderr                  -> jsdl-posix:Error
>  * SAGA_WallclockHardLimit         -> jsdl-posix:WallTimeLimit
>  * SAGA_Cputime                    -> jsdl-posix:CPUTimeLimit
>  *
>  * ##jsdl:DataStaging
>  * SAGA_FileTransfer[]             -> Maps to operations in 
> jsdl:DataStaging
>  * JSDL_DeleteOnTermination        -> jsdl:DeleteOnTermination
>  *
>  * ##jsdl:Resources
>  * SAGA_NumCpus                    -> jsdl:TotalCPUCount
>  * SAGA_Memory                     -> jsdl:TotalPhysicalMemory
>  * SAGA_ProcessorType              -> jsdl:CPUArchitecture
>  *                                         [of enumeration 
> jsdl:ProcessorArchitectureEnumeration or other]
>                                              sparc	    A SPARC 
> architecture processor
>                                              powerpc	    A PowerPC 
> architecture processor
>                                              x86	        An Intel 
> Architecture processor derived from the 8086 chip set
>                                              x86_32	    An x86 
> processor capable of 32-bit processing mode
>                                              x86_64	    An x86 
> processor capable of 64-bit processing mode
>                                              parisc	    A PARISC 
> architecture processor
>                                              mips	    A MIPS 
> architecture processor
>                                              ia64	    An Intel 
> Architecture 64-bit processor
>                                              arm	        An ARM 
>                                              processor
>                                              other	    A value not 
> defined by this enumeration
>  * SAGA_OperatingSystem            -> jsdl:OperatingSystemType
>  *                                         [of enumeration 
> jsdl:OperatingSystemTypeEnumeration or other]
>                                              Unknown other 
> Not_Applicable AIX ASERIES ATTUNIX BeOS BS2000
>                                              BSDUNIX Caldera_Open_UNIX 
> DC_OS DECNT Dedicated DGUX EPOC FreeBSD
>                                              GNU_Hurd HP_MPE HPUX 
> Inferno Interactive_UNIX IxWorks JavaVM LINUX
>                                              Lynx MACH_Kernel MACOS 
> MiNT MSDOS MVS NCR3000 NetBSD NetWare
>                                              NextStep OpenBSD OpenVMS 
> OS_2 OS_390 OS400 OS9 OSF PalmPilot QNX
>                                              Reliant_UNIX Rhapsody 
> SCO_OpenServer SCO_UnixWare Sequent Solaris
>                                              SunOS TandemNSK TandemNT 
> TPF Tru64_UNIX U6000 VM VSE VxWorks WIN3x
>                                              WIN95 WIN98 WINCE 
> Windows_2000 Windows_R_Me Windows_XP WINNT XENIX
>                                              z_OS
> 
>  * SAGA_HostList[]                 -> jsdl:CandidateHosts
>  *
>  * ##jsdl:JobIdentification
>  * SAGA_JobName                    -> jsdl:JobName
>  * JSDL_Description                -> jsdl:Description
>  * JSDL_JobAnnotation              -> jsdl:JobAnnotation
>  * JSDL_JobProject                 -> jsdl:JobProject
>  *
>  * SAGA_JobState                   -> NOT SUPPORTED
>  * SAGA_JobInteractive             -> NOT SUPPORTED
>  * SAGA_JobContact[]               -> NOT SUPPORTED
>  * SAGA_JobNotification            -> NOT SUPPORTED
>  * SAGA_JobNative                  -> NOT SUPPORTED
>  * SAGA_WallclockSoftLimit         -> NOT SUPPORTED
>  * SAGA_JobStartTime               -> NOT SUPPORTED
>  * SAGA_Deadline                   -> NOT SUPPORTED
>  * SAGA_Queue                      -> NOT SUPPORTED
>  * </pre>
>  */
> 



-- 
"So much time, so little to do..."  -- Garfield