[Swift-devel] pilot job paper

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 15:59 -0500, Ketan Maheshwari wrote:
> In section IV.C I did not understand this about Swift Coasters: 
> 
> "" there is no possibility to manage this resource pool
> programmatically ""

That statement is silly by construction. The resource pool is managed
programmatically. It's not like coasters are implemented in a mechanical
device with gears, levers, pulleys, and belts.
> 
> Which seem to be slightly contradicting with the last statement in the
> same para:
> 
> ""SWIFT and Coaster supports various scheduling mechanisms, e. g. a
> FIFO and a load-aware scheduler.""

Swift is separate from coasters. The fifo and load aware scheduler are
from swift. The coasters have the block allocation scheme and its
respective scheduler.
> 
> Also, Nimrod/G is mentioned as a pilot-based framework, but no details
> are provided. As of 2008, when I used Nimrod/G, it did not have a
> pilot-based execution framework.
> 
> A bit surprised that MOTEUR's interface with pilot-based system DIANE
> and its many interesting recent results are not discussed provided
> that Marc Santcroos is one of the developers.

They mention DIANE I thought.