The Grid Resource Allocation and Management (GRAM5) component is used to locate, submit, monitor, and cancel jobs on Grid computing resources. GRAM5 is not a Local Resource Manager, but rather a set of services and clients for communicating with a range of different batch/cluster job schedulers using a common protocol. GRAM5 is meant to address a range of jobs where reliable operation, stateful monitoring, credential management, and file staging are important.
| The following guides are available for this component: | |
| Key Concepts | For important general concepts about job management in Globus. Includes GRAM5 Approach. [pdf] |
| Admin Guide | For system administrators and those installing, building and deploying GT. You should already have read the Installation Guide and Quickstart. [pdf] |
| User's Guide | Describes how end-users typically interact with this component. [pdf] |
| Developer's Guide | Reference and usage scenarios for developers. [pdf] |
Other information available for this component are: | |
| Release Notes | What's new with the 5.2.1 release for this component. [pdf] |
| Public Interfaces | Information for all public interfaces (including APIs, commands, protocols, etc). Please note this is a subset of information in the Developer's Guide. [pdf] |
| Quality Profile | Information about test coverage reports, etc. [pdf] |
| Migrating Guide | Information for migrating to this version if you were using a previous version of GT. [pdf] |
| All GRAM5 Guides (PDF only) | Includes all GRAM5 guides except Public Interfaces (which is a subset of the Developer's Guide) |
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- Local Resource Manager (LRM)
A system which controls access to a compute resource, such as a compute cluster or parallel computer. Such systems provide batch execution interfaces, which GRAM uses to execute jobs. Condor, PBS, GridEngine are examples of local resource managers.