[wg-all] New document published: European Middleware Initiative Execution Service – v2.0

[Greg Newby]

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* GFD-I.210: European Middleware Initiative Execution Service –
  Version 2.0.  M. Riedel, A. Konstantinov via PGI-WG.

Abstract:
  The Production Grid Infrastructure (PGI) working group works on a well
- defined set of standard profiles, and additional standard
specifications if needed, for job and data management that are aligned
with a Grid security and information model that addresses the needs of
production Grid infrastructures.  These needs have been identified in
various international endeavors and are in many cases based on lessons
learned obtained from the numerous activities in the Grid
Interoperation Now (GIN) community group. Therefore, PGI can be
considered as a spin-off activity of the GIN group in order to feed
back any experience of using early versions of open standards
(e.g. BES, JSDL, SRM, GLUE2, UR, etc.) in Grid production setups to
improve the standards wherever possible.  This particular document
captures the a reasonable stable draft of the execution service
specification of the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) that has
been created based on many identified PGI concepts.  A complementary
implementation of this draft specification is provided by the EMI
project including adoptions in ARC, gLite, and UNICORE.  The goal of
this document is to capture community practice and to have a
foundation for a set of important standard specification updates to be
addressed by the PGI set of profiles and/ or specifications of the
corresponding related groups (e.g. BES, JSDL, etc.)


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