[Swift-devel] How does swift know if a task is successful

Michael Wilde wilde at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Mar 18 09:04:46 CDT 2009


I'll talk to ZHao and Allan about this; I havent been following this 
thread because I thought it was a mechanical detail, and in fact thought 
  Swift already did whats needed. But I'll read up and work with Zhao 
and Allan to see if we can avoid unnecessary changes. Not yet sure, 
we'll see.

On 3/18/09 8:38 AM, Ian Foster wrote:
> I think that at this point we are experimenting to see what can be done. 
> Not to say that we shouldn't do this, but the first focus is on seeing 
> what might work at all.
> 
> 
> On Mar 18, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Zhao Zhang wrote:
>>
>>> exactly, currently, we are building a collective IO system on BGP, so 
>>> CIO will
>>> take
>>> care of stage out results.
>>
>> Is it possible to interface between Swift and your work more cleanly?
>>
>> (maybe, for example, by doing something with the cog file transfer
>> provider API)
>>
>> Hacking essential pieces of the Swift code out feels really unpleasant,
>> and will pretty much definitely break some functionality, which will 
>> cause
>> you trouble later on if you try to run arbitrary SwiftScript programs.
>>
>> When we sat down in November/December, it sounded like you wouldn't need
>> to do anything like this to make the CIO stuff work with Swift; so I'd be
>> interested in more explanation/discussion about what the CIO work looks
>> like now.
>>
>> -- 
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