JRA1.1 - EMI-1 Development and Test Plans

EMI-1 Component CREAM

This service is a simple, lightweight service for job management operations at the Computing Element (CE) level.

• EMI Compute Solution
• Managed by compute area
• Part of Product Team gLite Job Management [ Details ]
• Component in ETICS : emi.cream-ce, emi.cream-ui [ Details ]
• Supported Platforms : Scientific Linux [ 2010-10-29 ]

Integrated Components

• BLAH 1.16 - Mandatory
  • Software Verification and Validation Plan : [ Details ]
• CREAM 1.7 and CEMON 1.13 - Mandatory
  • Software Verification and Validation Plan : [ Details ]

Features (ready)

The features in development are considered to be part of the EMI 1 release

Features (required)

• EMI technical objective Compute Area 1 : Glue 2.0 support in job management services and client tools (M12)
  • Addressed by developers
  • Problems related to information providers (partners did not deliver necessary providers)
  • Potential Risk: EMI 1 release of CREAM might not offer GLUE2 support
  • Investigation of solutions in progress

Features (early adopter)

• EMI technical objective Cross Area 7 : Integration of the compute area services with the ARGUS authorization framework. (M24)
  • Addressed by developers

Features (planned and/or in development)

Integration of GLUE2 compliant information providers in the CREAM CE

• Status: In development
• Verification : Testing Strategy 1 - GLUE2 Information [ More Details ]
• Milestone 1: 12/2010 - Development in beta quality present
• Milestone 2: 01/2011 - Tests in place for continous internal JRA1 testings during 02/2011 (JRA1.7, JRA1.8)
• Feature Deadline : 02/2011
• Addressing EMI technical objective Compute Area 1 : Glue 2.0 support in job management services and client tools (M12)
• Development Task Tracker : [ Details ]

Early Year 2 Features (planned and/or in development)

Integration of the CREAM CE with ARGUS authorization service. This will allow to have a single authorization mechanism within the CREAM CE

• Status: In development
• Milestone 1: 12/2010 - Development in beta quality present
• Milestone 2: 01/2011 - Tests in place for continous internal JRA1 testings during 02/2011 (JRA1.7, JRA1.8)
• Feature Deadline : 02/2011
• Addressing EMI technical objective: Cross Area 7 : Integration of the compute area services with the ARGUS authorization framework. (M24)
• Development Task Tracker : [ Details ]
• Description: For both CREAM and CEMON: At configuration time; site admin can choose:Using ARGUS or existing authorization mechanism (gJAF)

Other Features (planned and/or in development)

Better support for multi-core allocations

• Status: In development
• Milestone 1: 12/2010 - Development in beta quality present
• Milestone 2: 01/2011 - Tests in place for continous internal JRA1 testings during 02/2011 (JRA1.7, JRA1.8)
• Feature Deadline : 02/2011
• Addressing EMI Component Improvement
• Development Task Tracker : [ Details ]
• Description: support for JDL attributes WholeNodes, HostNumber, SMPGranularity, etc.

Feature Summary for EMI 1

P = Production Quality
beta = Pre-Production Quality

Status Update and Tracking

• [2010-11-16] Morris : Synchronized with final version of DJRA1.1.1 (Compute Area Work Plan)
• [2011-02-14] Morris : Added Links to Development Tracker Items
• [2011-02-14] Morris: Made a note about problem related to missing information providers
• [2011-02-14] Morris: Added feature - support for multi-core allocations
• [2011-02-14] Morris: Requested status updates and documentation from Massimo/Marco for TO 1 and 7 work