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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - > Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com