[Swift-devel] lots of very small files vs gridftp

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 05:09 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > I was mostly thinking about the conceptual part and the implications. At
> > least for small jobs, Falkon turned out to be the better option.
> 
> The ahead-of-time clsutering code always seemed to be a bit buggy and I 
> never saw it used with much success. So I don't really have any 
> quantitative performance comparison between that and running something 
> like falkon/coasters. I'm pretty convinced that the falkon/coaster 
> appraoch is better for job dispatch, but I have no numeric data from 
> actual real application executions.
> 

Ioan had some in a paper/presentation he did with Yong.