Job Submission Description Language

Job Submission Description Language is an extensible XML specification from the Global Grid Forum for the description of simple tasks to non-interactive computer execution systems. Currently at version 1.0 (released November 7, 2005), the specification focuses on the description of computational task submissions to traditional high-performance computer systems like batch schedulers.

Description[edit]

JSDL describes the submission aspects of a job, and does not attempt to describe the state of running or historic jobs. Instead, JSDL includes descriptions of:

• Job name, description
• Resource requirements that computers must have to be eligible for scheduling, such as total RAM available, total swap available, CPU clock speed, number of CPUs, Operating System, etc.
• Execution limits, such as the maximum amount of CPU time, wallclock time, or memory that can be consumed.
• File staging, or the transferring of files before or after execution.
• Command to execute, including its command-line arguments, environment variables to define, stdin/stdout/stderr redirection, etc.

Software support[edit]

The following software is known to currently support JSDL:

• GridWay meta scheduler[1]
• Platform LSF 7
• UNICORE 6
• GridSAM [2]
• Windows HPC Server 2008
• GRIA [3]
• Genesis II Project [4] http://genesis2.virginia.edu/wiki/
• Advanced Resource Connector (ARC v0.6 and above)
• XtreemOS Grid Operating System
• EMOTIVE Cloud [5]
• IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Tivoli Workload Scheduler

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

See also[edit]

• Resource Specification Language (See The Globus Resource Specification Language RSL v1.0)
• Distributed Resource Management Application API

External links[edit]

• "Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) Specification, Version 1.0" (PDF). Global Grid Forum. December 2005.
• JSDL working group project page
• Windows HPC Server 2008