[Swift-devel] Next Swift release

[Michael Wilde]

Mihael, of course feel free to set all this aside till finals are past.

We'll push forward on the discussion (and on other devel issues) fully understanding that you'll be focused on school this week.

One item I would *like* to address next week is validating the current SGE provider on the many diverse SGE systems that users are asking for. We now also have a request to support a machine in Edinburgh ("Eddie" ;) with PE's that dont match any we've seen before.

Eddie's PEs are described at:
  https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/ecdfwiki/Documentation (Eddie home page)
This web post alludes to a method to pretty much bypass PE processing:
  https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/ecdfwiki/Parallel+Environments
  http://gridengine.info/2005/09/19/parallel-environments-pes-loose-vs-tight-integration

Its possible that the Swift SGE provider already does this and just needs to get a PE spec that gets the right number of nodes or cores allocated.  If not, it seems desirable to have it behave in that manner.

We should ideally plan on testing SGE on: Ranger (local + GT2); IBI; Godzilla; sisboombah (the latter two are UC PSD clusters)

Does anyone on this list know of a SGE guru we can turn to for advice?

- Mike


----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 15:45 -0800, Sarah Kenny wrote:
> > alrighty, so looks like we should branch as soon as possible. miheal
> > and justin would you be ok with branching the current trunk into a
> > release candidate tomorrow?
> 
> Sorry. I should have mentioned this, but this is finals week. On the
> up
> side (though that depends on perspective), I'll be in Chicago next
> week
> and stay there until Jan 1st.
> 
> >  also, mike wilde and i were just discussing that it would be good
> >  to
> > know if there are any significant features available in 'stable
> > branch
> > 1.0' that are NOT currently in trunk so that we could include
> > them...any ideas on a good way to determine that?
> 
> We (I) would need to go through it and merge any relevant bug fixes
> that
> went into the branch since it was created.
> 
> Mihael

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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory