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

[Mihael Hategan]

----- Ian Foster <foster at anl.gov> wrote:
> Mihael:
> 
> I don't know how to parse your comment.
> 
> If I write a program that performs a series of operations on many  
> files, involving 1M tasks during its execution, but with only 10,000  
> active at each step, why is that not interesting? Or are you re- 
> defining the problem to "have 1M tasks active at once"? That is a  
> useful thing to be able to do, I am sure, but that does not mean that  
> the former is not useful also.

In the context in which the engine cannot reasonably support 1M tasks, 
it seems fairly pointless to say that, e.g. a faster GRAM is better for
running 1M tasks with Swift. It makes no difference.