Superficially, every process will have a ID. The local and ssh jobs have a unix process id. EC2 has InstanceID, Unicore has a job id and so on. I do not have any pretty ID generation suggestion. The pretest I know off beyond UUID is the time in milliseconds:)
Suresh On May 31, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Lahiru Gunathilake <[email protected]> wrote: > JobID is only applicable for Gram Jobs. > > Lahiru > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Saminda Wijeratne <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Devs, >> >> Some GFac Providers do not have a job id returned when a job is submitted >> (eg: EC2Provider). If we are to persist the job data for these providers we >> need to have a job id unique for the job table. Any suggestions on a good >> generation algorithm which wouldn't look so ugly as a UUID? >> >> Saminda >> > > > > -- > System Analyst Programmer > PTI Lab > Indiana University
