Category Archives: XgridDRMAA

Two pieces of good news today. First, the honorable Charlotte W. Woolard deemed my predicament of having multiple large software projects, a Monday Summer of Code check-in deadline, and a San Francisco move-out date of August 1 worthy of getting … Continue reading →

I finally got around to making the DRMAA code actually, um, talk to Xgrid. Right now all it does is open and close connections, but everything else will follow pretty much the same pattern. From the client code, it’s very … Continue reading →

The DRMAA specification includes the possibility of having the API return a list of “contacts”—identifiers for different grids. This seemed like a pretty natural place to return a list of controllers/grids discovered via Bonjour, so I went ahead and implemented … Continue reading →

It’s been a little slow going the last few days with my sister and another friend in town, but I’ve added a few little touches: OCUnit Testing There’s really no complex code to test yet, but I added a OCUnit … Continue reading →

I put together some headers for the Objective-C DRMAA interface. They follow the Java bindings pretty closely, with some name changes to match Cocoa naming conventions better, plus the use of NSError instead of exceptions. They also will reuse the … Continue reading →

Because GridSweeper implementation details will take longer to hash out, and because I’d love to get the system working with Xgrid as soon as possible (for selfish personal reasons), the first code I will write will be the Xgrid DRMAA … Continue reading →