Job Submission Description Language is an extensible

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specification from the

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for the description of simple tasks to non-interactive computer execution systems. Currently at version 1.0 (released November 7, 2005), the specification focuses on the description of computational task submissions to traditional high-performance computer systems like

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Description

JSDL describes the submission aspects of a job, and does not attempt to describe the state of running or historic jobs. Instead, JSDL includes descriptions of: * Job name, description * Resource requirements that computers must have to be eligible for scheduling, such as total RAM available, total swap available, CPU clock speed, number of CPUs, and

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. * Execution limits, such as the maximum amount of CPU time, wallclock time, or memory that can be consumed. * File staging, or the transferring of files before or after execution. * Command to execute, including its command-line arguments, environment variables to define, stdin/stdout/stderr redirection, etc.

Software support

The following software is known to currently support JSDL: * GridWay meta scheduler *

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External links

* {{cite web, url=https://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.56.pdf, title=Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) Specification, Version 1.0, publisher=Global Grid Forum, date=December 2005
JSDL working group project page

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