Glossary

LSF

Platform LSF is a commercial DRM

SGE

Sun Grid Engine is a commercial DRM

GE

Grid Engine is an open source version of SGE

DRM

Distributed Resource Management System. This is the underlying queuing software that manages jobs on a cluster. Examples include LSF, and SGE

DRMAA

Distributed Resorce Management Application API. A standard library that is an abstraction built on top of DRM so that the same application code can seamlessly run on any DRM that supports DRMAA

DAG

Directed Acyclic Graph. A DAG is used byCosmos to describe a workflow’s jobs and their dependencies on each other.

Flask

A Python web framework Cosmos uses for its web-interface

Sqlalchemy

A popular Python ORM that Cosmos uses