[Swift-devel] pilot job paper

[Ketan Maheshwari]

>
> I need queuing time vs. advertised job walltime on various clusters
> (with various/random degrees of utilization). That's to see whether it's
> useful to have coasters at all.
>
> The number of jobs is an orthogonal dimension (i.e. we may want to
> measure the queuing time vs. #of jobs for various walltimes, but later).
> The actual job duration is not relevant. The amount of data is not
> relevant.
>
> Clouds are an interesting environment, but not for this particular
> problem. That's because we need to see how much it takes to acquire
> resources, not how fast some job middleware is after we got hold of
> those resources.
>
>
Do you have any specific environments in mind for these experiments? For the
requirement of various/random degrees of utilization, we can use MCS local
cluster (10 x 64bit + 3 x 32 bit machines), Beagle, and Ranger.

Regards,
-- 
Ketan
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