[Swift-devel] Re: Swift Performance Data

[Ian Foster]

It is essential that we have kickstart (or the equivalent Falkon thing) 
running everywhere.

Ian.

Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Mike Wilde wrote:
>
>   
>> I believe we also want to run everything under kickstart. Its been hard to get
>> traction on that but we should discuss and keep on pushing on this.
>>     
>
> There was once an idea to have kickstart installed by our group on every 
> machine on which we commonly submit jobs to (maybe as part of the 'getting 
> swift running on each site' campaign that resulted in the present site 
> catalog). But that doesn't seem to be the way thing are now so maybe it 
> never got written down.
>
> Putting installs in place and pointing the default as-distributed site 
> catalog at those installs seems a relatively straightforward things to do 
> (at least for most sites, and especially the OSG ones, which often have 
> kickstart installed as part of their standard software stack).
>
>   

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