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GCT → GRAM 5

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 GCT. Includes GRAM5 Approach. [pdf]

Admin Guide

For system administrators and those installing, building and deploying GCT. 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 6.0 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 or GCT. [pdf]

All GRAM5 Guides (PDF only)

Includes all GRAM5 guides except Public Interfaces (which is a subset of the Developer’s Guide)