[Swift-devel] scheduler stuff for Google Summer of Code 2009

[Ben Clifford]

>From the stuff below, some are quite researchy and so probably better for 
an academic student project rather than a google project. The two that 
seem fairly clearly defined are:

For this, there may be some work here doing grunt work implementation of 
tweakable parameters and things like that. I don't know if it would take 
up a whole summer, though.

> Another scheduler-related set of projects relates to algorithms around 
> coasters: - how to manage (grow and shrink) the size of coaster pools - 
> how to size the time requests for the workers (perhaps dynamically) - 
> how the current dynamic throttle works for coasters - and probably many 
> more.


> - running Swift on clouds like E2C and Azure

Tim Freeman has done some work standing up clusters on multiple EC2 nodes, 
so that the multiple nodes are exposed through a single (perhaps GRAM?) 
interface. So putting Swift on the front of that seems straightforward to 
define.

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