Background

The DRMAA Working Group defines an API for the submission and control of jobs to one or more Distributed Resource Management (DRM) systems. The current version of specification already acts as primary API for Oracle / Sun Grid Engine, other implementations are available for PBS, Torque, Condor, LSF, Globus, LoadLeveler, SLURM, and GridWay. The scope of the specification is all the high level functionality which is necessary for an application to consign a job to a DRM system including common operations on jobs like termination, monitoring, or advance reservation.

The second major release of the specification is about to be finished.

Project Description

The project is intended to produce a reference implementation for the Python binding of the DRMAAv2 specification, based on simulated cluster operations with the multiprocessing module in Python. The resulting implementation is intended to act as testing framework for the Python binding of the new standard. Implementation experiences will be considered in the final DRMAAv2 Python language binding grid recommendation document. The code also has the potential to act as starting point for future DRMAAv2 adaptors from academia and industry.

Project Requirements

Advanced Python programming skills, and a basic understanding of concurrent programming. The choice between Python 2 and Python 3 as target platform is negotiatable.