Hi Fotis, On 12 August 2014 18:43, Fotis Georgatos <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:09 PM, Riccardo Murri wrote: >> GC3Pie backend would allow submission to PBS/Torque, LSF, GridEngine, >> and SLURM (plus OpenStack, EC2, and good old fork()/exec() but that's >> less interesting). > > Just for the record, the fork/exec backend is actually quite interesting, > especially, if GC3Pie properly does the task dependency aspects, > because you can also employ from inside a reserved node, can't you?
well, you would need to run `eb` on the reserved node, right? but then why not let the batch system schedule jobs on the reserved node? Anyway, yes, it would be equivalent to xargs/parallel but with job dependencies in addition. (And more overhead also.) Ciao, R
