[Swift-devel] Re: Throttling issues for coasters on OSG

[Allan Espinosa]

Based on the documentation, I should be using "use.provider.staging=proxy"
right?

Thanks,
-Allan

2010/10/21 Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>:
>
> I think that for Allan's workload (many hundred thousand 5 minute tasks),
> change 2 will be most effective and in almost all cases desirable.
>
> A third issue relates to staging, and is perhaps a non-issue if change 2
> works. The issue is: if we use provider staging for this workload, which is
> likely desirable, will data staging be done at the time a worker pulls a job,
> or will it be done in advance of that, and asynchronously with job start, just
> as it would be with ordinary staging?

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PhD student, Computer Science
University of Chicago <http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~aespinosa>