Introduction

GridSAM is an open-source job submission and monitoring web service.

This project is funded by the UK Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) managed programme. The aim of GridSAM is to provide a Web Service for submitting and monitoring jobs managed by a variety of Distributed Resource Managers (DRM). The modular design allows third-party to provide submission and file-transfer plug-ins to GridSAM. Moreover the job management API used by the GridSAM web service can be embedded into grid application that requires job submission and monitoring capabilities.

GridSAM endorses the WS-I set of web service standards and the Job Submission Description Language developed in the Global Grid Forum.

News

• 13/01/06: GridSAM v1.1-RC1 is released.

• 13/12/05: GridSAM-based implementation of the GGF Basic Execution Service interface has been put to the Interop test.

• 30/11/05: Development release is now inline with JSDL v1.0 recommendation

• 25/11/05: GridSAM is now a member of the Java Sun Grid community

• 12/11/05: JSDL is now an official GGF recommendation

• 29/09/05: GridSAM v1.0 is available! It is bundled with the OMII 2.1.0 release.

• 24/09/05: The GridSAM web-site is now hosted on SourceForge

• 23/07/05: GridSAM officially bundled with the OMII 2.0.0 release.

• 10/06/05: GridSAM v0.1.4 (beta 4) is released!

• 27/05/05: GridSAM v0.1.3 (beta 3) is released!

• 25/04/05: GridSAM v0.1 beta 2 is released!

• 22/03/05: Development snapshot is compatible with the OMII-1.2.0 release without changes.

• 22/02/05: Development snapshot is now compatible with the OMII-1.1.1 release. Please read compatibility notes.

• 28/01/05: GridSAM v0.1 beta 1 is released!

• 26/01/05: Getting Started with GridSAM

• 1/12/04: GridSAM architecture explained!

• 17/11/04: JSDL Face-to-Face meeting at the London e-Science Centre, Imperial College London, UK.

• 29/9/04: GridSAM website is online.