FOLLOWUP: Re: Platform adopts DRMAA?

[Mark Hahn]

I'm rather puzzled at this exchange: why would anyone care?
from the quick look I had at the drmaa stuff, it seemed quite 
trivial.  if I was writing a tool that needed to interact with
a queueing system, I'd just have an encapsulation layer anyway,
so wouldn't care about exact interfaces.

this is one of those nasty (and ultimately useless)
lowest-common-denominator types of interfaces, 
and seems to be driven by marketing weasels.


> I have to confess that I did not get the information
> directly form Platform.
> 
> I have been looking for the forum post which mentioned
> that Platform's NPi is dead, and Platform is joining
> DRMAA. I still couldn't find it.
> 
> Nevertheless, I just found that Platform is a member
> of GGF:
> http://www.gridforum.org/L_About/who.htm
> 
> which defines DRMAA:
> http://www.gridforum.org/3_SRM/drmaa.htm
> 
> So that made the original poster on the forum believed
> that Platform is joining DRMAA.
> 
> Do you know why Platform discarded NPi?
> 
> (Looks like another M$ API standard!)
> 
>  -Ron
> 
> --- Jim Meyer <purp at acm.org> wrote:
> > Failing any response from the original poster, I
> > made a few phone calls
> > and determined that while Platform did indeed
> > discard NPi, they have not
> > announced any effort to support DRMAA (nor did the
> > couple of folks I
> > spoke with know of any such effort under
> > consideration). 
> > 
> > Perhaps that's a shame as it'd be nice to be able to
> > integrate with one
> > interface and have a selection of DRM packages to
> > choose from ... but
> > then, I suspect that an easy bidirectional migration
> > path doesn't top
> > the list of any software vendor, proprietary or
> > otherwise.
> > 
> > A pity, that.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > --j, with salt shaker in hand.
> > -- 
> > Jim Meyer, Geek at Large                            
> >        purp at acm.org
> > 
> 
> 
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