[SAGA-RG] Hosted applications

[Malcolm Illingworth]

Hi,

My apologies if this is referring to an old discussion, but here goes ...

UNICORE supports the concept of an "abstract" hosted application. This means
that an application is installed on a remote execution host, and can be
referred to via a name, rather than a path to the executable. In JSDL this
would look something like:

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 <jsdl:JobDescription>
       <jsdl:Application>
         <jsdl:ApplicationName>Bash shell</jsdl:ApplicationName>
         <jsdl:ApplicationVersion>3.1.16</jsdl:ApplicationVersion>
         <jsdl1:POSIXApplication
 xmlns:jsdl1="http://schemas.ggf.org/jsdl/2005/11/jsdl-posix">
           <jsdl1:Environment name="SOURCE">input.sh</jsdl1:Environment>
         </jsdl1:POSIXApplication>
       </jsdl:Application>
     </jsdl:JobDescription>
==================================================

Any thoughts of how I could support this at the SAGA level? The SAGA job
description defines an EXECUTABLE property, but I'm assuming this has to be
an actual path.

Regards,
Malcolm.

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