[Swift-devel] Re: replication vs site score

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 06:27 -0500, Ian Foster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to point out that when we use Falkon/coasters, we have full  
> control over scheduling,

Once we get the nodes, yes.

>  so in that case we could in principle pre- 
> compute schedules. However, in practice we still don't tend to have  
> enough information about execution times for this to be that useful.  
> At least that's my belief.
> 
> I assume that estimates of queue time bounds would surely be helpful  
> for determining where to send things, and whether a job was stuck.
> 
> Ian.