GGF17: 10-12 May 2006, Tokyo Japan
Attendees: A Stephen McGough, William Lee
Main areas of focus: HPC profile BOF, SAGA, OGSA, OGSA RSS, OGSA EMS, JSDL, OGSA
Information model
BoF for the HPC profile group
At this GGF the main focus for the JSDL group was on the definition of a parallel job extension.
Five projects, including GridSAM, presented their extensions to the JSDL specification for parallel
jobs. This information was considered and evaluated in terms of what the wider community would
really require from parallel job submissions. This was work that we were able to contribute fully to
and provide insight from our prior work in developing a parallel extension for GridSAM based on
requirements from our users. This also brought up a discussion on how JSDL documents should be
extended as this would be our first extension. By the end of the meeting we had a draft schema for a
SPMD extension.
From work that happened at the last OGSA face to face meeting, focusing on the HPC use case, a
birds of a feather meeting was held to form a new group to work on interoperation between
different Grids. This work would be based on profiling down the BES and JSDL specifications. This
is obviously highly relevant work for what we have been doing already and something that we are
taking a full and active role within. The plan was set out to hold an interoperation session at
SuperComputing 06 in November.
The next iteration of the BES specification was worked upon which removed some of the
complexities that had been added from the previous iteration, thus bringing it back more to what we
already had with GridSAM. The information modelling group continued its efforts in modelling the
BES service and an overall information model for the Grid. Again this is relevant as a better way for
describing resource requirements within a JSDL document. The EMS effort at this event were
looking at the overall architecture and specifically how CDDLM would fit within this. We
continued to feed into the efforts of the SAGA and RSS groups.