I just wanted to send out something for people to read in preparation for the discussion on job management interfaces tomorrow. For a nice resource modelling neutral example, I'll focus on the APIs that the SAGA research group has proposed for job management, since the operations (if not their rendering) are pretty much what I would propose. Surprise, surprise ... it looks a lot like GRAM/LSF/DRMAA/<insert your favourite job management system here>. The attached document is the full job management interface for SAGA, but I've pasted the job object itself below, since that what the focus of the discussion will be. -- Chris interface Job { getJobId (out string jobId); getJobState (out JobState state); getJobInfo (out JobInfo info); getJobDefinition (out JobDefinition jobDef); getJobExitStatus (out JobExitStatus exitStatus); suspend (); resume (); hold (); release (); checkpoint (); migrate (in JobDefinition jobDef); terminate (); signal (in int signum); }