Charter for GSA-RG
Date 2008-05-26

Group Abbreviation: gsa-rg
Group Name: Grid Scheduling Architecture RG
Area: Compute

Group Leadership:
Ramin Yahyapour	ramin.yahyapour@udo.edu	Chair
Philipp Wieder		philipp.wieder@udo.edu		Chair
Ariel Oleksiak		ariel@man.poznan.pl		Secretary

Group Summary:
The goal of the Grid Scheduling Architecture Research Group (GSA-RG) is to foster interoperation between different scheduling systems by evaluating the standards landscape and defining best practices for the realization of use cases in the Grid scheduling domain.

Charter Focus/Purpose and Scope:
The purpose of the Grid Scheduling Architecture Research Group is to work towards interoperable scheduling solutions within the Grid community. Currently, these are mostly proprietary and – although many of them make use of existing standards – as such not able to interoperate. Therefore, the GSA-RG evaluates existing OGF standards (and potentially those from other SDOs), identifies existing gaps that prevent schedulers from interoperation, and works together with OGF Working Groups towards unifying solutions.

The group began with identifying a set of relevant approaches obtained in existing Grid projects resulting in GFD.64.

Currently, the GSA-RG reviews necessary protocols and interfaces to support interoperability between different Grid schedulers based on one specific interoperability scenario: activity delegation from one scheduler to another. Those requirements will be evaluated in the light of existing services and protocols from other OGF groups, which are considered as potential basic building blocks to realise the interoperability scenario.

Goals/Deliverables:
Title: 
Use Cases for Coordinated Grid Scheduling
Abstract:
This document gives some example use cases for Grid scheduling to demonstrate the scope in actual projects. Based on these use cases, a set of relevant profiles are derived which classify the use-cases in order of complexity. This document is intended to be a source for requirements and information on Grid scheduling use cases.
Type:
Informational Document
Milestone			Date 	Completed?	Completed Date (YYYY-MM)
First Draft 			2004-07 	Yes 			0000-00
Public Comment 	2005-09 	Yes 			0000-00
Published 			2006-03 	Yes 			2006-03

Title:
Scheduler Interoperability Best Practices – Job Delegation
Abstract:
This document provides information about uses cases and requirements for the delegation of (HPC) jobs between schedulers in different administrative domains.  To achieve this, the delegation use case is evaluated focussing on existing OGF standards and specifications. Wherever gaps are seen those are discussed and potential solutions are proposed.
Type: 
Informational Document
Milestone			Date		Completed?	Completed Date (YYYY-MM)
First Draft 			2008-12 	N			0000-00
Public Comment 	2009-03 	N			0000-00
Published 			2009-06 	N			0000-00

Group Status: Active

Public Description (for print & web site):
The goal of the Grid Scheduling Architecture Research Group (GSA-RG) is to foster interoperation between different scheduling systems by evaluating the standards landscape and defining best practices for the realization of use cases in the Grid scheduling domain.