[Bioclusters] LSF vs SGE

Ron Chen bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
Fri, 16 May 2003 21:00:46 -0700 (PDT)


1) Opensource software does not uaually follow M$
standard...

2) More and more projects follow DRMAA, just found out
that Condor is also one of the followers of the open
standard.

 -Ron

--- Chris Smith <csmith@platform.com> wrote:
> I'll give a bit of a summary from my point of view. 
> 
> NPI (which predates DRMAA by the way ... funny ...
> Sun didn't join NPI
> when invited) is focused on defining an architecture
> for distributed
> computing. 
> It is crafted in terms of the "actors"
> involved and the
> "actions" between them (this is quite clear if you
> look at some of the
> early output of the organization, which include
> Rational Rose models).
> Note that the intention is to stay away from a
> particular language
> binding. Yes ... many of the early interactions
> described used actions
> which reflected Platform's API, but that's only to
> be expected given our
> position as one of the founding members, and from
> our heavy involvement.
> The object model (which is what it is) is no longer
> constrained this
> way, which was always the intention when NPI came
> together. 
> 
> >From my understanding DRMAA is intended to define a
> C API for DRM
> systems. It's also interesting that DRMAA is
> highlighted as a group "of
> interest" to the NPI Architecture Working Group, so
> perhaps it's not
> quite "DRMAA vs NPI". It would be interesting to see
> if the DRMAA API
> would suffice as an instance of the object model. I
> would surmise that
> it would fit quite well this way. 
> 
> Platform is also not disinterested in DRMAA ... we
> watch the activities
> closely. We see, though, that the trend in the
> marketplace these days is
> more towards supporting Web Services. With this in
> mind, most of
> Platform's energy at GGF is in the OGSA/OGSI area. I
> personally believe
> that it's more important at this stage to define
> standard web service
> interfaces (language neutral) than to standardize on
> a particular
> language binding. LSF has both a C API (had it since
> day one) and a Java
> interface using a back-end SOAP server .... I'm
> definitely having to
> provide more support for Java and SOAP than for C
> these days. 
> 
> -- Chris
> 
> 
> 
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