Scott Schwartz wrote:
Probably apples and oranges, but Jim Kent wrote a job scheduler for his
kilocluster that nicely handled about 1M jobs in six hours. It's the
standard thing for whole genome sequence alignments at ucsc.
I think that's neat, I would like to learn more. Was this scheduler for
an arbitrary job mix, or specialized to that app?
| If you look at how most clusters are used today, they closely resemble
| the batch world of the 1960s. It is actually kind of shocking.
On the other hand, sometimes that's just what you really want.
true. Sometimes it is. I've found, more often, that it's what people
will accept, but not what they want.
ron
