GSoCIdeas

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Google Summer of Code 2007 Ideas

• DRMAA Web Services Specification and Binding
• RSS/ATOM Feed for job status
• Java Swing qmon
• Consistent and useful error codes for command-line clients
• A new Grid portal that offers rich UI based on AJAX
• A portlet that offers cached access to qstat output
• A NetBeans plugin for DRMAA and/or OpenMPI
• Integration with a VMM (such as Xen) to dynamically set up an execution environment (in the form of a virtual machine) before running a job (see also: Virtualization and Grid Engine)
• qevent features:
  • wait for one or more jobs to finish and then exit
  • run the script when there are jobs submitted (instead of just when jobs exit)
• IPv6 support (commlib)
• Re-enable "usermapping" support
• GUI for building sharetrees
• GUI for building workflows
• Port DAGMan (Directed Acyclic Graph Manager) to SGE (see also: initial analysis)

• Windows
  • Execute host for Windows programs
    • Move to Cygwin layer rather than Microsoft's
  • Submit host
    • SGE submit Windows job
    • SGE submit Linux job from Windows
    • DRMAA submit Windows job
    • DRMAA submit Linux job from Windows
    • ssh? Start_Jobs_From_Windows_Using_SSH

• Virtual Machine on Windows running Linux
  • Submit/Execute host using VM (likely VMWare since host OS is Windows)
  • Checkpoint?
  • Mouse/keyboard monitor?

• Execute Windows programs with VM on Linux execute hosts

• Robust mouse/keyboard monitor for Linux

• VM checkpointing?