[wg-all] Two new OGF documents: GFD-E.103 and GFD-E.104 via DRMAA-WG

[Greg Newby]

GFD-E.103: Condor DRMAA 1.0 Implementation -- Experience Report.
P. Troger & B. Gietzel via DRMAA-WG.

Abstract: This document describes experiences in the implementation of
the Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA)
specification for the Condor workload management system. The document
reports about issues that where identified during implementation and
test of a DRMAA C library for Condor, which was evaluated successfully
with the DRMAA working group compliance test for C bindings. We will
give suggestions for improvement of the specification, mainly
concerning readability of the GFD-R-P.022 specification document.



GFD-E.104: GridWay DRMAA 1.0 Implementation -- Experience Report.
J. Herrera et al., via DRMAA-WG.

Abstract: This document reports about experiences made with running
DRMAA working group compliance test for C bindings against GridWay 5.2
implementation of the Distributed Resource Management Application API
(DRMAA). GridWay (www.gridway.org) is an open source meta-scheduling
technology that, on top of Globus services, performs job execution
management and resource brokering. GridWay performs all the job
scheduling and submission steps transparently to the end user and
adapts job execution to changing Grid conditions by providing fault
recovery mechanisms, dynamic scheduling, migration on-request, and
opportunistic migration.

This document also includes some implementation details of the DRMAA
API, and remarks some special considerations made to implement the
DRMAA standard on a Grid (Globus based). The main difficulties arise
because the nature of the Grid itself, as opposed to a classical
Distributed Resource Management System (DRMS), which provides a single
system image where all resources are in the same administration
domain.


For those who are wondering: there are some gaps in the document
series numbering, due to numbers being pre-assigned for documents
forthcoming soon.  Also, there is a third DRMAA-WG document that
will be announced shortly.


Read these documents here:
  http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final


  -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor