Resource Descriptions

As we found previously in Chapter , a resource description is, well, a description of a resource. There we introduced the resource description classes GATResourceDescription, GATHardware ResourceDescription, and GATSoftwareResourceDescription. To this trinity we add two new classes. The first is GATSoftwareDescription. This new entry is used to describe executables. So, for example, it would be used to describe your mania, Galatea. The second new class is GATJobDescription. This is used to describe a job and includes a description of the executable, a GATSoftwareDescription instance, along with a description of the hardware on which the job will run, a GATResourceDescription or GATResource instance.