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I seem no reason to assume that our understanding will not advance as
we study more cases.<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 20:04 -0500, Ian Foster wrote:
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<pre wrap="">These are good questions: where do different things belong.
Working out the right approach in this specific example will surely
provide insights into how to do things in other cases.
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Will it? The exact same statement could have been made when such
"concepts" were put into cog/karajan, or when Yong figured out specific
numbers (and on all the occasions that have worked to build up to what
we have today).
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<pre wrap="">Ian.
Ben Clifford wrote:
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<pre wrap="">it seems superficially to say "we shouldn't be forcing our execution
management semantics on the underlying execution system"; which perhaps
means both that we shouldn't be rate limiting but also that we shouldn't
be doing retries and things like that - we either expect someone else to
deal with this stuff or we do it ourselves.
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Ian Foster, Director, Computation Institute
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