[Swift-devel] Falkon and Coaster support for MPI

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Jun 30 13:01:12 CDT 2008


Yep, that's crappy.

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:44 -0500, Ioan Raicu wrote:
> Except that there are limits on how many jobs you can have in the Cobalt 
> queue, mostly for policy reasons due to Cobalt not supporting fair-share 
> scheduling.  The limits have been 2 jobs per user for a long time, and 
> they have recently been raised to 6 jobs per user.  This obviously won't 
> work with the policies in place today.
> 
> Ioan
> 
> Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 10:19 -0500, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> In terms of the scheduling, what we must keep in mind is that
> >> coasters/glideins/falkons can be implemented in such a way as to ensure
> >> performance is never worse than without them. 
> >>     
> >
> > In fact, one trivial implementation of this would be to forward all
> > MPI/multi-node jobs directly to the queuing system, under the assumption
> > that they are sufficiently large jobs not to benefit much from queue
> > bypasses.
> >
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