Job Submission Description Language

Job Submission Description Language is an extensible XML specification from the Global Grid Forum 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 batch schedulers.

Description

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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, Operating System, etc.
  • 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

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The following software is known to currently support JSDL:

See also

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  • "Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) Specification, Version 1.0" (PDF). Global Grid Forum. December 2005.
  • JSDL working group project page
  • Windows HPC Server 2008