[Swift-devel] Falkon and Coaster support for MPI

[Ben Clifford]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Michael Wilde wrote:

> The initial discussion here was based on the assumption that a Falkon-like
> mechanism was required in order to run workloads of many small jobs on the BGP
> - whether that be through Swift, or directly. (Small meaning 1 to 64 CPUs each
> and order of a few minutes of runtime each).

Is this the sort of workload that the applications that are targetted for 
MPI use on this machine create? (what are those applications, btw?)


> Recently, IBM circulated info on their "HTC" mode support for the BG/P, which
> may change the nature of the assumptions above.

That would be useful to see. Its hasn't circulated to me, though.

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