The Workload Management System (WMS) comprises a set of Grid middleware components responsible for the distribution and management of tasks across Grid resources, in such a way that applications are conveniently, efficiently and effectively executed. Following the list of sub-services the WMS is composed of:
Workload Management – WM: Core component of the Workload Management, its purpose is to accept and satisfy requests for job management coming from its clients
WMProxy: Web service interface to submit jobs to the WM
Job Controller – JC: Acts as an interface to condor for the WM
Log Monitor – LM: Directly connected to JC acts as a job monitoring tool parsing condor log files
Local Logger: copy events to be sent to the LB server into a local disk file
LBProxy: keeps a local view of the job state to be sent to the LB server
Proxy Renewal: Service to renew the proxy of a long-running job