All, The Microsoft HPC Basic Profile implementation is available for testing - https://hpc.msftlabs.com/HPCProfileInterop/JobSubmission.svc . This has been updated to the published specs. A typical job is described below. This uses username and password to identify the connecting client. You will need a username and password for this. Please contact me directly for this. Regards, Steven <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <jsdl:JobDefinition xmlns:jsdl="http://schemas.ggf.org/jsdl/2005/11/jsdl" xmlns:jsdl-hpcp="http://schemas.ggf.org/jsdl/2006/07/jsdl-hpcp" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <jsdl:JobDescription> <jsdl:JobIdentification> <jsdl:JobName>HPCBP Example Job</jsdl:JobName> <jsdl:JobProject>OGSA-HPCBP</jsdl:JobProject> </jsdl:JobIdentification> <jsdl:Application> <jsdl-hpcp:HPCProfileApplication name="IPConfig" > <jsdl-hpcp:Executable>dir</jsdl-hpcp:Executable> <jsdl-hpcp:Argument>c:\program files</jsdl-hpcp:Argument> <jsdl-hpcp:Argument>/s</jsdl-hpcp:Argument> <jsdl-hpcp:Input></jsdl-hpcp:Input> <jsdl-hpcp:Output>ipconfig_out.txt</jsdl-hpcp:Output> <jsdl-hpcp:Error>ipconfig_err.txt</jsdl-hpcp:Error> </jsdl-hpcp:HPCProfileApplication> </jsdl:Application> <jsdl:Resources> <jsdl:CandidateHosts> <jsdl:HostName></jsdl:HostName> </jsdl:CandidateHosts> <jsdl:ExclusiveExecution>true</jsdl:ExclusiveExecution> <jsdl:OperatingSystem> <jsdl:OperatingSystemType> <jsdl:OperatingSystemName>other</jsdl:OperatingSystemName> </jsdl:OperatingSystemType> <jsdl:OperatingSystemVersion>Windows_2003_Server</jsdl:OperatingSystemVersion> <jsdl:Description>Operating System Description</jsdl:Description> </jsdl:OperatingSystem> <jsdl:CPUArchitecture> <jsdl:CPUArchitectureName>x86_64</jsdl:CPUArchitectureName> </jsdl:CPUArchitecture> <jsdl:TotalCPUCount> <jsdl:UpperBoundedRange>1.0</jsdl:UpperBoundedRange> <jsdl:LowerBoundedRange>1.0</jsdl:LowerBoundedRange> </jsdl:TotalCPUCount> </jsdl:Resources> </jsdl:JobDescription> </jsdl:JobDefinition>