[Swift-devel] CCA-11 Swift Poster Visitor's Questions

[Mihael Hategan]

Some are interesting. Do you want any of them answered?

Mihael

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 00:00 -0500, Ketan Maheshwari wrote:
> Here is a list of questions asked by the visitors of our swift poster at the CCA-11 poster session [poster attached here] earlier this evening:
> 
> -- What is the novelty in this stuff? Meta-scheduling has been done in the past; scalability studies have also been done in the past (by Swift too).
> 
> -- Is this similar to map/reduce?
> 
> -- Are you planning to compare Swift/coasters with map/reduce?
> 
> -- What do people do without Swift in this same scenario (multi-clouds)?
> 
> -- This looks similar to Condor glide-ins!?
> 
> -- (After explaining the coasters mechanism) What is sites script again? (some more explaining that it is not script it is a descriptor) And again what is that sites file? 
> 
> -- What happens without Coasters?
> 
> -- What do I need to run Swift on my cluster?
> 
> -- Would it benefit me if I chuck Python and use Swift instead for my GIS related app?
> 
> -- The simplicity of script-code seems deceptive!?!
> 
> -- Is the coasters scheduling algorithm published somewhere?
> 
> 
> --Ketan
> 
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