[Swift-devel] Imbalanced scheduling with coasters and multiple sites

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Ian Foster wrote:

> Is there a description somewhere of the algorithms used for starting coasters
> and submitting jobs to them?

Plenty in the archives of this list, I expect.

Basically: if a job arrives and there is a free coaster slot, launch a new 
coaster worker. If there is no free coaster slot existing for it, launch a 
new coaster worker.

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