Working Group

Develop an API specification for the submission and control of jobs to one or more Distributed Resource Management (DRM) systems. The scope of this specification is all the high level functionality which is necessary for an application to consign a job to a DRM system including common operations on jobs like termination or suspension. The objective is to facilitate the direct interfacing of applications to today's DRM systems by application's builders, portal builders, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).

The DRMAA Working Group is currently working on the next major release of the DRMAA API. We would love to see your suggestions and wishes for an update of the DRMAA API layout. To give you a feeling for the things we intend to change, here are two snapshots from our current work:

• Slides about DRMAA2 from the Sun HPC Workshop, September 2009
• September 2009, DRMAA2 Draft 5

Please consider that this information is most likely being outdated.

All the action is happening in the DRMAAv2 Wiki

. You are more than welcome to add comments to the pages there, in order to provide feedback to our current status. For latest updates, please join the low-traffic DRMAA mailing list.

You can find all specifications in the documents section of this home page. Implementations of DRMAA are discussed on a separate page.
We collected a number of usage stories for DRMAA in science and industry.
If you want to implement DRMAA, you can use the official DRMAA compliance test suite.
All open and resolved issues regarding the documents are maintained in the GridForge Issue Tracker
.

The DRMAA working group invites your participation. Download and review the current version of the specification document, subscribe to the email alias, and call into the teleconference call every other Wednesday at 20:00 UTC. Meetings are announced on the mailing list. Meeting minutes for DRMAA phone conference calls are available in the email archives.

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The chairs welcome any comments or questions. The DRMAA-WG email alias is drmaa-wg@ogf.org.
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