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Glossary

C

Condor

A job scheduler mechanism supported by GRAM. See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ for more information.

J

job description

Term used to describe a GRAM4 job for GT4.

job scheduler

See the term scheduler.

L

LSF

A job scheduler mechanism supported by GRAM.

For more information, see http://www.platform.com/Products/Platform.LSF.Family/Platform.LSF/.

M

Managed Executable Job Service (MEJS)

[FIXME]

Managed Job Factory Service (MJFS)

[FIXME]

Managed Multi Job Service (MMJS)

[FIXME]

multijob

A job that is itself composed of several executable jobs; these are processed by the MMJS subjob.

See also MMJS subjob.

P

Portable Batch System (PBS)

A job scheduler mechanism supported by GRAM. For more information, see http://www.openpbs.org.

R

Resource Specification Language (RSL)

Term used to describe a GRAM job for GT2 and GT3. (Note: This is not the same as RLS - the Replica Location Service)

S

scheduler

Term used to describe a job scheduler mechanism to which GRAM interfaces. It is a networked system for submitting, controlling, and monitoring the workload of batch jobs in one or more computers. The jobs or tasks are scheduled for execution at a time chosen by the subsystem according to an available policy and availability of resources. Popular job schedulers include Portable Batch System (PBS), Platform LSF, and IBM LoadLeveler.

Scheduler Event Generator (SEG)

[FIXME]

U

Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)

Identifier that is immutable and unique across time and space.

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