Two new OGF documents: GFD-E.103 and GFD-E.104 via DRMAA-WG

GFD-E.103: Condor DRMAA 1.0 Implementation -- Experience Report. P. Troger & B. Gietzel via DRMAA-WG. Abstract: This document describes experiences in the implementation of the Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) specification for the Condor workload management system. The document reports about issues that where identified during implementation and test of a DRMAA C library for Condor, which was evaluated successfully with the DRMAA working group compliance test for C bindings. We will give suggestions for improvement of the specification, mainly concerning readability of the GFD-R-P.022 specification document. GFD-E.104: GridWay DRMAA 1.0 Implementation -- Experience Report. J. Herrera et al., via DRMAA-WG. Abstract: This document reports about experiences made with running DRMAA working group compliance test for C bindings against GridWay 5.2 implementation of the Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA). GridWay (www.gridway.org) is an open source meta-scheduling technology that, on top of Globus services, performs job execution management and resource brokering. GridWay performs all the job scheduling and submission steps transparently to the end user and adapts job execution to changing Grid conditions by providing fault recovery mechanisms, dynamic scheduling, migration on-request, and opportunistic migration. This document also includes some implementation details of the DRMAA API, and remarks some special considerations made to implement the DRMAA standard on a Grid (Globus based). The main difficulties arise because the nature of the Grid itself, as opposed to a classical Distributed Resource Management System (DRMS), which provides a single system image where all resources are in the same administration domain. For those who are wondering: there are some gaps in the document series numbering, due to numbers being pre-assigned for documents forthcoming soon. Also, there is a third DRMAA-WG document that will be announced shortly. Read these documents here: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor
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