Announcing OpenDSP project

Web Service multi-user access to SGE over DRMAA for remote job submission and control

Poznan -- May 11 2006

The OpenDSP developers are happy to announce that an additional service exposing the Web Service multi-user access for job submission, control, and monitoring DRMAA routines in SGE 6.0u4 or later is available now as open source and 100% free.

In order to download OpenDSP sources and manual please visit the following webpage:


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The OpenDSP issue tracker is also available:


Release notes (OpenDSP v0.1 RC1):

• Built-in support of DRMAA job submission, control, monitoring and error handling over DRMs
• Authentication and encryption mechanisms based on SSL or GSI (Grid Security Infrastructure)
• Successfully tested with external services based on Globus Toolkit 2.4.x, 3.2.x and 4.0
• Authorization callouts and external access control list
• External accounting and auditing database available
• Stage-in/out operations supported over DIME/MIME attachments
• JSDL 1.0 POSIX based job description
• Successfully tested with the following resource/cluster management systems: SGE (SGEv6u4, SGE v6u5, SGEv6u7, SGEv6u8 recommended)
  • Linux x86, kernel 2.4, glibc >= 2.2
  • Linux AMD64 (Opteron), kernel 2.4, glibc >= 2.3
  • Solaris (Sparc) 9 64-bi
  • Solaris (x86) 9
  • Apple Mac OS/X
• Java, .NET and C-based example clients and SDKs available
• Distributed under the GPL license