Tutorials

Distributed Resource Management Application API

This guide is a tutorial for getting started programming with DRMAA. It is basically a one to one translation of the original in C for Grid Engine. It assumes that you already know what DRMAA is and that you have drmaa-python installed. If not, have a look at Installing. The following code segments are also included in the repository.

Starting and Stopping a Session

The following code segments (example1.py and example1.1.py) shows the most basic DRMAA python binding program.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import drmaa

def main():
    """Create a drmaa session and exit"""
    s=drmaa.Session()
    s.initialize()
    print 'A session was started successfully'
    s.exit()

if __name__=='__main__':
    main()