[Swift-devel] Re: condor coasters

[Michael Wilde]

The "bag or workstations model" is of interest for two user groups:

- MCS runs 10+ 8-core compute servers (that mount /home). These make a great "site" for initial scaleup of scripts for MCS users.

- Users anywhere with a similar capability can do the same.

Coaster provider staging gives good support for setups like this that lack a shared filesystem.

- Mike


----- Original Message -----
> > - will it support the "bag of workstations" model? (ie no VMs
> > involved)
> 
> well now condor was the traditional answer for that, but it didn't
> work
> very well in practice.
> 
> the really big blocker i found on workstation pools was that they
> tended
> to not have a shared file system, which was totally at odds with
> swift's
> site model of the time.
> 
> maybe that's not so much of a problem anymore, if there are other ways
> of
> staging data.
> 
> --

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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory