DRMAA
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DRMAA or Distributed Resource Management Application API is a high-level Open Grid Forum API specification for the submission and control of jobs to one or more Distributed Resource Management Systems (DRMS) within a Grid architecture. The scope of the API covers all the high level functionality required for Grid applications to submit, control, and monitor jobs to local Grid DRM systems.
In 2007, DRMAA was one of the first two (the other one was GridRPC) specifications that reached the full recommendation status in the Open Grid Forum.[1]
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[edit] Development Model
The development of this API was done through the Global Grid Forum, in the model of IETF standard development, and it was originally co-authored by:
- Roger Brobst from Cadence Design Systems
- Waiman Chan from IBM
- Fritz Ferstl from Sun Microsystems
- Jeff Gardiner from John P. Robarts Research Institute
- Andreas Haas from Sun Microsystems (Co-Chair)
- Bill Nitzberg from Altair Engineering
- Hrabri Rajic from Intel (Maintainer & Co-Chair)
- John Tollefsrud from Sun Microsystems Founding (Chair)
This specification was first proposed at Global Grid Forum 3 (GGF3) in Frascati, Italy, but gained most of its momentum at Global Grid Forum 4 in Toronto, Ontario. The development of the specification was first proposed with the objective to facilitate direct interfacing of applications to existing DRM systems by application's builders, portal builders, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Because the API was co-authored by participants from a wide-selection of companies and included participants from industries and education, its development resulted in an open standard that received a relatively good reception from a wide audience quickly.
[edit] Significance
Without DRMAA, no standard model existed to submit jobs to component regions of a Grid, assuming each region was running local DRMSs. The first version of DRMAA API has been implemented in Sun's Grid Engine and also in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's program Condor. Furthermore C, Java, and IDL binding documents have been made available.
[edit] Implementations
- Sun Grid Engine[2]
- Condor[3]
- Torque/PBS[4]
- GridWay[5]
- Xgrid[6]
- EGEE (under development)
- Load Sharing Facility[7]
- UNICORE[8]
[edit] Language Bindings
Other language bindings can be generated easily from SWIG, which was first used by the Perl binding.
[edit] References
- ^ DRMAA and GridRPC Documents Achieve "Grid Recommendation" Status. Open Grid Forum (2008-01-07).
- ^ N1 Grid Engine DRMAA 1.0 Implementation – Experience Report. Open Grid Forum (2008-01-04).
- ^ Condor DRMAA 1.0 Implementation – Experience Report. Open Grid Forum (2008-01-04).
- ^ PBS/Torque DRMAA 1.0 Implementation – Experience Report. Open Grid Forum (2008-01-04).
- ^ GridWay DRMAA 1.0 Implementation – Experience Report. Open Grid Forum (2008-01-04).
- ^ XgridDRMAA. SourceForge (2008-01-04).
- ^ Platform Computing Adopting DRMAA Standards. Platform Computing Corp (2007-12-18).
- ^ A DRMAA-based target system interface framework for UNICORE. IEEE (2009-01-04).
- ^ Java DRMAA binding with JavaScript. Sun Microsystems (2008-05-25).
