Wokplan for the first year

The EMI components currently implement job description, job management and job status query in different, incompatible ways, even if the provided core functionality is mostly the same. While standard mechanisms for job description and standard interfaces for job submission , management and status query do exist, they are not really suited for production use because they lack significant capabilities. This issue is being addressed in parallel in two front-lines:

• Within the EMI JRA1 working group, where a specification for an EMI (also known as AGU: ARC, GLITE, UNICORE) execution service is being defined
• In the PGI OGF working group [R28] where, besides the EMI partners, some other actors are involved.

As soon as the EMI specification is ready (this is planned by PM6: milestone MJRA1.2) , it will be implemented in the EMI job management products (A-REX based ARC CE, CREAM CE, UNICORE TSI, UNICORE XNJS, UNICORE web service interfaces) and in the relevant clients (ARC Compute client, CREAM CE client, UNICORE HiLA and UCC). The plan is to finalize such implementation by PM18 (milestone MJRA1.3).

Implementation

The activities for the specification of the EMI Execution Service (ES) are tracked here

-- MassimoSgaravatto - 05-Sep-2010