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

[Daniel S. Katz]

On Apr 13, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Ian Foster wrote:

> Hi Ketan:
> 
> Nice work transcribing the questions!
> 
> I'm curious as to what the "deceptive" question means. The simplicity doesn''t seem deceptive to me! 

I don't think deceptive was used seriously.

> 
> The poster title is a bit deceptive: it makes this sound like a research poster, when the content reads more like a Swift advertisement. It would be good to produce a paper that provides a detailed description of the coaster's mechanism, a comparison with other work in this area, and a careful evaluation of the functioning of the coaster implementation.

A few of us have started this, but haven't gotten very far yet.

> 
> Ian.
> 
> 
> On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:00 AM, 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?
>> 
>> 
>> <SwiftPoster.CCA-11.pdf>
>> --Ketan
>> 
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