Alan Sill wrote:
On May 28, 2008, at 2:20 AM, Jan Ploski wrote:
Interesting point of view. I agree that this is how many users
(especially first-time ones) expect it to work, irrespective of how it
is actually wired and plumbed. Thanks very much for the input.
Learning to run at scale is clearly one of the interesting challenges
for grid software of any kind in the near-term future. For the
moment, I think the user-throttling advice is the right starting point
-- don't start zillions of jobs and just expect them to be totally
idle in the queue until they start running on the remote resource (as
you also agreed). Whether we can or should design things so that this
use case can be accommodated in the future is an interesting
challenge. I would say that most designers of software from the
users' point of view would agree with you that the answer should be
"yes" where it is definitely "no" at the present time --
The Falkon project allows you to answer "yes" to the above question.
Cheers,
Ioan
instead, one of the user solutions I pointed to should be used to
prevent lots of outstanding pending processes.
Alan
Alan Sill, Ph.D
TIGRE Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Professor of Physics
TTU
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