OGF Community: A new document has been published in the OGF series. All OGF documents (including any that are open for public comment) may be found here: www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/documents/documents Note that the OGF site is undergoing transition, and the link might change. You can always get to the documents page via a link on the main page at www.ogf.org. This also links to public comments, for any documents in public comment. * GFD-I.210: European Middleware Initiative Execution Service – Version 2.0. M. Riedel, A. Konstantinov via PGI-WG. Abstract: The Production Grid Infrastructure (PGI) working group works on a well - defined set of standard profiles, and additional standard specifications if needed, for job and data management that are aligned with a Grid security and information model that addresses the needs of production Grid infrastructures. These needs have been identified in various international endeavors and are in many cases based on lessons learned obtained from the numerous activities in the Grid Interoperation Now (GIN) community group. Therefore, PGI can be considered as a spin-off activity of the GIN group in order to feed back any experience of using early versions of open standards (e.g. BES, JSDL, SRM, GLUE2, UR, etc.) in Grid production setups to improve the standards wherever possible. This particular document captures the a reasonable stable draft of the execution service specification of the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) that has been created based on many identified PGI concepts. A complementary implementation of this draft specification is provided by the EMI project including adoptions in ARC, gLite, and UNICORE. The goal of this document is to capture community practice and to have a foundation for a set of important standard specification updates to be addressed by the PGI set of profiles and/ or specifications of the corresponding related groups (e.g. BES, JSDL, etc.) -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor Dr. Gregory Newby, Director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Univ of Alaska Fairbanks-909 Koyukuk Dr-PO Box 756020-Fairbanks-AK 99775-6020 e: gbnewby@alaska.edu v: 907-450-8663 f: 907-450-8603 w: people.arsc.edu/~newby