[Swift-devel] swift-on-ec2

[Ben Clifford]

On Wed, 16 May 2007, Ian Foster wrote:

> If we configure the virtual cluster with a full LRM, as you propose (and 
> it seems have already done--great work!), then we can use this to start 
> Falkon executors--as we do today on regular clusters. So it seems to me 
> that we have all we need. How about you and Ioan spend your time on 
> Thursday running something on EC2, to make sure it sorks?

> Regarding choice of LRM: have you looked at SGE? That is what quite a 
> few others seem to be using.

That's probably a bunch of most unnecessary extra weight (== trouble) if 
the images are specifically intended for use as swift+falkon. But useful 
to have round if people want to do other things too.

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