[DRMAA-WG] Conference call - Oct 20th - 19:00 UTC

[Peter Tröger]

Dear all,

the next DRMAA phone conference is scheduled on Oct 20th, at 19:00 UTC.

The phone conference line is sponsored by Oracle. Please consult the following page for dial-in numbers from your country:

http://www.intercall.com/oracle/access_numbers.htm

The conference code is 6513037. The security code is DRMAA (37622).

Preliminary meeting agenda:

1. Meeting secretary ?
2. Organization of document finishing, phone call suspension
3. Collaborative editing of Google spreadsheet

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqyvnBscJNqxcnJBSUs5dXRrU29EUVhGOGthc1lDTFE

Best regards,
Peter.

[Peter Tröger]

Participants: Daniel, Dan, Mariusz, Peter

Post by Peter Tröger
1. Meeting secretary ?

Peter.

Post by Peter Tröger
2. Organization of document finishing, phone call suspension

- All major open issues are clarified, start of final writing phase
- Daniel offered to work on full text for MonitoringSession chapter
- Mariusz offered to work on full text for Advance Reservation chapters
- Dan and Peter will cover the rest
- Final wrap-up meeting in Europe planned for December

- !!! Bi-weekly phone calls will be suspended, on-demand organization of calls instead !!!
- Demands more activity on the mailing list, in order to collect new issues

Post by Peter Tröger
3. Collaborative editing of Google spreadsheet
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqyvnBscJNqxcnJBSUs5dXRrU29EUVhGOGthc1lDTFE

- Resource limit part in JobTemplate
- SGE combines resource request formulation and ulimit settings as one thing (example: virtual memory demand)
- Most other systems support only pure ulimit specification
- Decision to mention the possible conflict between generic resource requests and limit settings
- Placeholders:
- Home and working directory to be removed, since they can be expressed by "~" and "."
- Proposal by Dan to add (execution host) user name and host name as supported placeholders
- Clarification of support in DRM systems needed (Mariusz ? Roger ?)
- Idea of having generic placeholder for DRM-specific placeholders: outFile="/foo/bar/$DRMSPECIFIC:SGE_TASK_ID$/foo"
- Would allow to have portable source code + broader support for DRM-specific placeholders
- Other implementations can detect through the prefix that they do not support this placeholder
- Discussion of according reaction: wiping it out vs. replacing by "UNKNOWN" vs. throwing an error
- Tendency to favor the error option, in order to not implicitly change job template semantics
- Placeholders for other job template attributes rejected, because of circular dependency problem