Parameter Sweeping for GridSAM

Primary Mentor: Steve Crouch (s.crouch@software.ac.uk)
Secondary Mentor: Justin Bradley (j.bradley@software.ac.uk)

Background

The GridSAM project is an open source project for making resources available through a standardised job submission interface, OGSA-BES, using a standardised job submission language JSDL available from the Open Grid Forum. GridSAM provides a veneer over existing resources (either clusters or single computers) which translates the incoming standardised job submission into the format required by the underlying architecture.

Project Goals

The project is goal is to implement the ability to 'sweep' across a range of parameters, specified in JSDL, within the GridSAM project.

Project Description

A relatively new extension to the JSDL specification allows the execution of parameter sweep jobs. A parameter sweep job allows the user to specify one job description where there may be variation in one or more of the values defined in the job description. The job execution service will then expand this description into a number of jobs each of which represents one of the possible variations in the original document.

Project Requirements

Coding in Java and dealing with XML is essential. Web services experience would be a big advantage.

Further information

Project website: http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/GridSAM
Project mailing list(s): gridsam-discuss - see http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=141177
Project code repository: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridsam/