Grid Resource Allocation Manager

Grid Resource Allocation Manager or Globus Resource Allocation Manager (or GRAM) is a software component of the Globus Toolkit that can locate, submit, monitor, and cancel jobs on Grid computing resources. It provides reliable operation, stateful monitoring, credential management, and file staging.GRAM does not provide job scheduler functionality and is in fact just a front end to the functionality provided by an external scheduler.The jobs submitted to GRAM are targeted at a single computation resource, and consist of an optional input file staging phase, job execution, and an optional output file staging and cleanup stage.
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