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

[Ian Foster]

I assume that there was some thought behind the question. E.g., they might think that a lot of work and code is required to wrap the executables (which is not the case). Or that a lot of work is required to configure the coasters. Or something else?

On Apr 13, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Daniel S. Katz wrote:

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> On Apr 13, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Ian Foster wrote:
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>> Hi Ketan:
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>> Nice work transcribing the questions!
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>> I'm curious as to what the "deceptive" question means. The simplicity doesn''t seem deceptive to me! 
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> I don't think deceptive was used seriously.
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>> 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.
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> A few of us have started this, but haven't gotten very far yet.
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>> Ian.
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>> On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:00 AM, Ketan Maheshwari wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>> -- 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).
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>>> -- Is this similar to map/reduce?
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>>> -- Are you planning to compare Swift/coasters with map/reduce?
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>>> -- What do people do without Swift in this same scenario (multi-clouds)?
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>>> -- This looks similar to Condor glide-ins!?
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>>> -- (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? 
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>>> -- What happens without Coasters?
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>>> -- What do I need to run Swift on my cluster?
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>>> -- Would it benefit me if I chuck Python and use Swift instead for my GIS related app?
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>>> -- The simplicity of script-code seems deceptive!?!
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>>> -- Is the coasters scheduling algorithm published somewhere?
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>>> <SwiftPoster.CCA-11.pdf>
>>> --Ketan
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