[Swift-devel] pilot job paper

[Ketan Maheshwari]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 16:10 -0500, Ketan Maheshwari wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
> > wrote:
> >         On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 11:59 -0700, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> >         > >
> >         > > Theres a special issue of J. Grid Computing call for
> >         data-intensive
> >         > > Cloud papers due Aug 16 that might be good for this
> >         (perhaps stressing
> >         > > the provide-staging aspects)?
> >         >
> >         > Sounds good. I'll start getting some of the necessary
> >         numbers.
> >
> >
> >         Which reminds me: who wants to help with said numbers?
> >
> >         For example, there is an easy one: the dependence between job
> >         wall time
> >         and queuing time on various clusters.
> >
> > I can try this along with the cybershake work I am doing these days.
>
> I'm not sure where cybershake fits in. The problem would be to submit
> dummy jobs of various walltimes to various clusters and record the
> amount of time they sit in the queue.
>

It is just a use-case. I thought, stats based on an (any) real application
will have more merit compared to dummy jobs.


> Though an alternative may be to go through swift logs and extract that
> data. It may not give us relevant data points, but it may be worth a
> try.
> >
> > I read the text of the paper (in March) and have some comments, will
> > send'em soon.
> >
> Thanks.
>
>
>


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Ketan
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