Adding Standards Based Job Submission to a Commodity Grid Broker

The Condor matchmaker provides a powerful mechanism for optimally matching between user task and resource provider requirements, making the Condor system a good choice for use as a meta-scheduler within the Grid. Integrating Condor within a wider Grid context is possible but only through modification to the Condor source code as each new mechanism for connection to remote resources is defined. In this paper we describe how the emerging standards for job submission and resource description can be integrated into the Condor system, thereby allowing arbitrary remote Grid resources which support these standards to be brokered using Condor.