Conference call minutes - Oct 14th 2009
Attendees: Peter Troeger Roger Brobst Hrabri Rajic Daniel Gruber 1. Meeting secretary: Daniel 2. Last meeting minutes accepted 3. New meeting time discussion (http://www.doodle.com/u6zry5bzuumy63n6) -> week keep original time slot (Tuesday 19:00 UTC) 4. Draft 5 - MonitoringSession interface (see drmaa.org for draft document) - machinePhyMemory / machineVirtMemory: need for differentiation between configured versus available memory (the term "available" currently used in the spec for machineVirtMemory is misleading) - Cache sizes are not reported out of the box via most DRMs (so we don't support that) - Disk space (for directories, FS, networks storage) -> we keep it in mind but make it not yet to an attribute (for sure only optional because the lack of support by DRMs) - Discussion about explicit file transfer (file staging) which is not in use. - MachineOS: Problem: Standardized list of Strings. Peter: Common information model by DMTF (specifies and updates a list) Roger; POSIX (uname -a) - MachineLoad: machineLoad(in string machineName, in AverageTime) where AverageTime is short/medium/long (1, 5, 15 minutes - the values from the uptime command). (CoreNumber is thrown out) enum AverageTime { SHORT, MEDIUM, LONG } 5. Draft 5 - JobInfo interface (see drmaa.org for draft document) - time slot was over -> next time Regards Daniel
4. Draft 5 - MonitoringSession interface (see drmaa.org for draft document)
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- MachineOS: Problem: Standardized list of Strings. Peter: Common information model by DMTF (specifies and updates a list) Roger; POSIX (uname -a)
Regarding using the uname command as the basis for system identification ... As noted in http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uname.html the uname command accepts the following options: ________________ -m Write the name of the hardware type on which the system is running to standard output. -r Write the current release level of the operating system implementation. -s Write the name of the implementation of the operating system. -v Write the current version level of this release of the operating system implementation. ________________ I have concerns that one OS installed on given hardware might output a different 'hardware type' than a different OS installed on identical hardware. It's also worth noting that AIX 5.3 manpages indicate -r Displays the release number of the operating system. -v Displays the operating system version. Thus, % uname -r 3 % uname -v 5 Whereas on SunOS 5.9, % uname -r 5.9 % uname -v Generic_112233-11
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Daniel Gruber -
Roger Brobst