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

[Michael Wilde]

This contains a lot of the startup details:

http://wiki.cogkit.org/wiki/Coasters


On 4/7/09 7:36 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 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.
>