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

[Ian Foster]

It has been a persistent problem getting TG and OSG to consider VMs.  
The reasons are mixed: in my view, some good, some bad. The good  
reasons include the difficulties inherent in getting Xen/VMware  
support for the sometimes odd software found on high-end systems.  
E.g., on TG-UC, both 64-bit hardware and GPFS have been sources of  
problems. The bad reason is a persistent conservatism.

Good news is that there are a growing number of so-called "cloud"  
testbeds appearing (albeit small ones), based on Nimbus and  
Eucalyptus. Also, it seems that Argonne will have a 6,000-core "cloud"  
system in the near future--a perfect place for such applications.  
Perhaps that will be first of many.

Ian.


On Apr 24, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:24 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
>> The problem with VMs at the moment is that most of the resources our
>> users need to run on at the moment are not VM-enabled, and wont be in
>> say the next 12 months or more.
>
> Well, I think that if everybody thinks like that, TG will see no  
> need to
> do anything about it.
>
> If we think this is the right way to go (and I do, and you seem to), I
> believe we should at least ask for it. Ian definitely has the skills  
> to
> put this nicely in words, and the reputation that would make TG  
> consider
> them.
>
>
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