Balle, Susanne wrote:
I think this is a good start. I did find some areas missing such as Workflow and support for Job Dependencies as well as extensions for MPI/UPC programs.
None of those are base cases. They're just very useful extensions. :-) The JSDL-WG is currently working on defining a spec for describing parallel (e.g. MPI) job requests, an area chosen because there was considerable community interest (if we didn't, several different groups of people stated they'd go off and do their own lash-ups, indicating that the need is urgent). With that, I'd imagine that the main requirement would then be a "parallel-aware" BES container, and that it would be the responsibility of such a system to act as a facade and hide the details from the largely-uninterested users. Donal.