GridWay 5.8 is the new stable version of the fifth series of the metascheduler.
Release date: September 30th, 2011.
GridWay core and commands are now configured, built and installed separately from the MADs, which have their own Makefile.
This way, GridWay installation does not depend on the installation of a given middleware.
Job state is polled at randomized intervals, to avoid saturation due to multiple simultaneous requests. Moreover, the interval is duplicated when a failure occurs.
An execution driver for CREAM, the job submission and management interface of gLite, is included in this release.
A technology preview of an execution driver for OGSA-BES, the OGF specification for job submission and management, is included in this release.
GridWay offers the opportunity to write logs in the Syslog format. You can configure GridWay using –with-syslog option. Optionally, you can use a particular facility (LOG_DAEMON, LOG_USER, or LOG_LOCAL[0-7]).
A translation mechanism of resource requirements in job templates to RSL, JDL and JSDL is available. You can explicitly set the maximum cputime, walltime, and/or maximum and minimum amount of memory for a single execution of the executable, by means of the ENVIRONMENT variables MAXCPUTIME, MAXTIME, MAXWALLTIME, MAXMEMORY and MINMEMORY in job templates.
A new option to gwd (-d) is added to dispose jobs when they are done.
The following bugs have been fixed: