[tsc] Draft 0.1 of the technical Strategy Document.

[Chris Kantarjiev]

Application Provisioning

Job submission, and indeed any sort of workload manager, implies the ability to 
discover, describe, provision and manage the lifetime of an appropriate 
application code onto an identified computing resource. In many instances, this 
can be done at a very high level, but some scenarios will require very specific 
descriptions at the application layer. This, in turn, may place requirements for 
a specific operating system and version, possibly implying a certain patch level 
and hardware requirements.

EGA's Reference Model describes the overall flow of activity involved in 
provisioning a high-level component and decomposing the required work into 
accessible quanta: ACS and CDDLM are specific proposals/WGs that attack the 
problems of describing and managing the lifetime of specific applications.