It's also interesting to observe the API designs follow XML (key, value) pair in all these startups that want to handle failures ...
Justin On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:32 AM, John Hearns <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed. Some interesting news here: > > > http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/03/04/docker-acquires-apache-aurora-founders/ > > Us old style guys are going to have our lunch money stolen by young > upstarts. Or is that startups? > Seriously - these guys know how to keep things running at scale and how to > tolerate failures. > > > > > > On 3 March 2016 at 23:30, Christopher Samuel <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 04/03/16 06:40, Douglas Eadline wrote: >> >> > Yes, failure needs to be option. >> >> The Slurm folks have been working on failure management support for a >> little while, the idea being you can have a pool of spare nodes to pick >> from (or alternatively bargain with a scheduler for a node that's >> currently busy to come free later on and then add it to the job, >> potentially extending the walltime to make up for the shortfall). >> >> A better description from someone with higher caffeination is here: >> >> http://slurm.schedmd.com/nonstop.html >> >> All the best, >> Chris >> -- >> Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator >> VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative >> Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 >> http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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