Hi, My apologies if this is referring to an old discussion, but here goes ... UNICORE supports the concept of an "abstract" hosted application. This means that an application is installed on a remote execution host, and can be referred to via a name, rather than a path to the executable. In JSDL this would look something like: ================================================== <jsdl:JobDescription> <jsdl:Application> <jsdl:ApplicationName>Bash shell</jsdl:ApplicationName> <jsdl:ApplicationVersion>3.1.16</jsdl:ApplicationVersion> <jsdl1:POSIXApplication xmlns:jsdl1="http://schemas.ggf.org/jsdl/2005/11/jsdl-posix"> <jsdl1:Environment name="SOURCE">input.sh</jsdl1:Environment> </jsdl1:POSIXApplication> </jsdl:Application> </jsdl:JobDescription> ================================================== Any thoughts of how I could support this at the SAGA level? The SAGA job description defines an EXECUTABLE property, but I'm assuming this has to be an actual path. Regards, Malcolm. ---------------------------------------------------- |epcc| - Malcolm Illingworth EPCC, University of Edinburgh James Clerk Maxwell Building Mayfield Road E-mail: malcolm@epcc.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Phone: + 44 (0) 131 651 3388 United Kingdom Fax: + 44 (0) 131 650 6555 -------------------------------------------------------------