This document describes the Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA). It defines a generalized API to Distributed Resource Management (DRM) systems in order to facilitate the development of portable application programs and high-level libraries.
 
The intended audience for this specification are DRMAA language binding designers, DRM system vendors, high-level API designers and meta-scheduler architects. Application developers are expected to rely on product-specific documentation for the DRMAA API implementation in their particular DRM system.
 
The Distributed Resource Management Application API Version 2 (DRMAA) specification defines an interface for tightly coupled, but still portable access to Distributed Resource Management (DRM) systems. The scope is limited to job submission, job control, reservation management, and retrieval of job and machine monitoring information.
 
This document acts as root specification for the abstract API concepts and the behavioral rules of a DRMAA- compliant implementation. The programming language representation of the API is defined by a separate language binding specification.