[Swift-devel] block allocation

[Mihael Hategan]

Great. Thanks.

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 10:51 -0500, Ioan Raicu wrote:
> At least on the BG/P using Cobalt, the reservations are based on user
> IDs and queues. Once a reservation is in place, and it has certain
> users associated with that reservation, those users can simply submit
> jobs to the specific queue (unique to that reservation, and is usually
> named by the sys admin that sets up the reservation, e.g.
> R.Falkon-8K), and the jobs will run under that reservation. Other
> systems such as PBS/SGE/Condor could be different, I don't know. 
> 
> Ioan
> 
> Mihael Hategan wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 07:16 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> >   
> > > On Sun, 24 May 2009, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > > 
> > >     
> > > > PS: On the topic of static allocations, in people's experience, how does
> > > > one specify reservations on various resources?
> > > >       
> > > I've only done that by sending email to help at teragrid.org, which is a 
> > > relatively high latency and expensive operation.
> > > 
> > >     
> > 
> > Right. But once you have the reservation, I assume you have a mechanism
> > of specifying which of your jobs should make use of it and which
> > shouldn't. Like a reservation id. That mechanism is what I'm interested
> > in.
> > 
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