web services for remote execution

[Reagan Moore]

Roy:
Various grid portals also provide many of the features you are 
seeking.  The NMI portal provides a way to interact with grid 
resources, list files, execute commands, and some of them interact 
with SRB collections.

The portal environments are converging on JSR170 as a common 
interoperability specification for importing portlets from other 
communities.

Reagan


>Guy
>
>I have been watching some the emails, wondering if any of them fit 
>what I want to do.
>O'Mullane and his RunID seems relevant, The GGF document on 
>"Scenarios for mapping DAIS
>concepts" seems relevant.
>
>I am building an infrastructure for Science Gateways on the grid. 
>This is a set of secure
>web services that allow execution and monitoring of batch jobs. It 
>is intended to be used
>with a set of web pages to expose particular functionality (eg 
>astronomical mosaicking,
>seismic simulations, etc).
>
>The web services would allow:
>
>1. Creation of a session on the server, including creation of file 
>space, and return of
>sessionID
>
>2. Put and Get to the file space of a session
>
>3. Execution of an arbitrary Unix command on the server, which includes:
>-- Queuing jobs on the server as part of session
>-- Monitoring status of remote jobs using sessionID
>
>4. Removing and deleting a session and its files
>
>I am close to defining my own service interface (WSDL) for these 
>actions. Before I do so,
>can you (or anyone else) tell me if anyone else has already done 
>this (CEA? CondorSOAP?
>GGF?)
>
>Thank You
>Roy
>
>
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>roy at caltech.edu
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