[Swift-devel] stageout ordering vs restarts

[Ben Clifford]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Ian Foster wrote:

> Can we control the relative priorities of stage outs and stage ins?

Ragib might be looking at some stuff wrt job prioritisation in general in 
his summer project.

As to how the priority is specified in this case, I don't know if some 
real-number based prioritisation is useful or if (I think more likely) a 
choice of more discrete prioritisations such as "always stageout first", 
"always stageout last", "make no priority distinction between stageouts 
and other jobs" (or more generally, once you have started the first job 
for a Swift-level procedure call, do you want to get the other jobs done 
as fast as possible at the expense of overall workflow throughput?)

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