Hi All,

The grid-tools sandbox area is working well for experimental stuff. I would 
like add clients to talk to clusters work load managers like MOAB to further 
explore. For now I will create a stand alone example, if it works well, I will 
start a discussion on if we can add it as a provider to GFac. For now, its just 
a FYI. 

Cheers,
Suresh

[1] - https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/airavata/sandbox/grid-tools/

On Nov 9, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:

> I assume there are no objections to create a sandbox project to experiment 
> with new libraries. 
> 
> Suresh
> 
> On Oct 11, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Dev's.
>> 
>> Currently Airavata is relying on jglobus 1.8 for Grid interactions. The 
>> library works ok but has been with some limitations:
>> 
>> * jglobus 1.x version is no longer actively supported as it was superseded 
>> by jglobus 2.0 effort [1]
>> * many dependencies of 1.x are not in maven central and it looks like the 
>> time spent on making them all available is not worthwhile. jglobus 2.x has 
>> limited dependencies and many are in maven central.
>> * jglobus1.x is monolithic with all security, file transfer and job 
>> management bundled together. Jglobus2.0 refactored these into separate 
>> libraries which will be useful for Airavata going forward. 
>> * Airavata should take advantage of all the GRAM protocol state changes and 
>> also would need to local job id like features. 
>> 
>> If there are are objections, I would like to create a sandbox area for and 
>> test the jglobus2.0. If it works well, then we will have some refactoring to 
>> do in gfac, but first step is to test the new libraries.
>> 
>> Any comments or suggestions?
>> 
>> Suresh
>> 
>> [1] - http://www.globus.org/toolkit/jglobus/
> 

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