Group Chair(s): Andreas Savva, Darren Pulsipher, Stephen McGough

Group Email: jsdl-wg@ogf.org (Subscribe) (Archive by date)

The JSDL-WG has produced a language that describes the requirements of jobs for submission to Grids. JSDL 1.0 (published as GGF recommendation GFD-R-P.056 [http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.56.pdf]) is an XML-based language that focuses mainly on computational jobs. The JSDL-WG is working on extending this language to address a wider class of jobs.

The JSDL-WG has provided a specification for an abstract standard Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) that is independent of language bindings. A normative XML Schema corresponding to the JSDL specification has been included in the JSDL specification document (GGF recommendation GFD-R-P.056 [http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.56.pdf]).

The JSDL-WG is working on improving and extending this language to address a wider class of jobs, including Web service invocations, and issues raised by the Grid community. Further, the JSDL-WG plans to work with Grid projects and DRM vendors to produce a document of translation tables to and from the scheduling languages of a set of popular batch systems for both the job requirements and resource description attributes of those languages, which are relevant to the JSDL.

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