Hi All,
We are happy to make available a new GRAM V5 alpha 3 version for
testing.
http://dev.globus.org/wiki/GRAM/GRAM5#Alpha_3
New features in this release:
- Support for clients to get the remote application's exit code
- Support for clients to get the version of the job manager
Alpha 2 was deployed at 2 TeraGrid sites: LSU's Queen Bee and NCSA's
Abe. Thanks to Lukasz Lacinski and Doru Marcusiu. Also, Alpha 2 got
some excellent testing and feedback from Jaime Frey and Igor Sfiligoi
using condor-g. Thanks Jaime and Igor. Igor ran a number of tests
submitting 5000 jobs at a time. Here is a comment from Igor on the
performance comparison to GRAM2:
"GRAM5 can easily keep a job turnaround of around 1Hz (50 jobs/min).
Compare this to the 7.5 jobs/min of GT2.
Plus, it can start jobs at a 7Hz rate (450 jobs/min); GT2 best case
scenario was 0.5Hz (33 jobs/min).
(note: the comparison is not really apple to apple due to missing file
transfer)"
We would encourage GRAM users to install and test this new Alpha 3
version. Please send your feedback to [email protected] or to me
directly.
Thanks for your support!
- GRAM development team
