[Swift-devel] pilot job paper

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:12 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> Ian, QBETS sounds very useful; I met the developer at last year's SDCI
> meeting, and thought we could readily use QBETS predictions in Swift
> scheduling. Mihael, what would be a general interface from picking up
> site queue predictions from such tools with some kind of loose
> coupling?

Populate initial scores and job throttles based on QBETS data instead of
starting from scratch in every run.
> 
> 
> Also, in the Condor-G-based coaster factory approach we tested in
> ExTENCI, we could plug QBETS info into its factory script to bias the
> volume of pilot jobs we are sending to each site. Then the mod Mihael
> made recently in coaster scheduling will automatically keep all
> running coaster slots filled with active jobs.

Right. But let's focus on the paper?