[Swift-devel] pilot job paper

[Ian Foster]

I think that you may find it useful to look at the queue time predictor that Rich Wolski developed. QBETS I think is the name?

Ian.

On Jul 20, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Ketan Maheshwari wrote:

> 
> 
> 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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