[Swift-devel] Planning next set of Swift features and releases

[Ian Foster]

I have asked Yi Zhu, new student at U.Chicago, to experiment with  
doing this on Amazon EC2 (and Nimbus) for Swift. He should join this  
list, tell us of his plans, and keep us updated on his progress.


On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 09:55 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
>
>>> Auto app install
>>
>> singel-executable staging is< i think, easily achieveable. anything  
>> more
>> complex than that is not achievable for a 1.0 release. That does not
>> preclude ongoing ADEM (or related to ADEM) development as a separate
>> component (much as Falkon is or the log-processing stuff was)
>>
>
> I think the auto app install issue is a difficult one. I'm thinking of
> our alleged typical science user, who patches together applications  
> from
> various sources, some stable, some not, some picky about their
> environment some less so.
>
> I believe that the only reasonable solution to the problem is
> virtualization. The scenario is that in which the user builds a VM  
> that
> they can test locally, and which works the same on any resource used,
> without the need to re-compile, tweak, troubleshoot, debug, etc. I'm  
> not
> sure what the state of VM support is on the TG and/or OSG (maybe Kate
> can comment on this), but I think without it, our users will  
> invariably
> need to trade between effort of installing applications on resources  
> and
> ability to load-balance or deal with transient site issues.
>
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