HPC Basic Profile with Steven Newhouse (4/5) -- File Staging

HPC Basic Profile Web Service or the HPCBP for short, is a web service, built using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that provides access to some of HPCS 2008’s core job submission functionality.  

Part 4 --  Submitting a job with File Staging

-Users need to setup a place to store files for a job.
-Specify Download and Upload files are supported using the file staging extension of JDSL.
-May use the IIS's ftp server.
-Staging, cleaning up files before and after a job submission are allowed.