[Swift-devel] faster branch

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 11:13 -0600, Lorenzo Pesce wrote:
> Mihael,
> 
> Sounds great.
> 
> Do you think that I can try and use it for medium scale simulations on Beagle as a test? (say 100 nodes, few thousands of concurrent jobs, just running for a couple of hours)
> 
> The current versions of swift just can't handle the workload on Beagle, or at least don't seem to, and your changes seem to fit perfectly with our needs.

The change was motivated by your needs in part.

> Speed in handling complicated (or at least large) workflows and memory reductions are the weakest spot right now, so I am eager to try it.
> 
> If you give me the green light, I can try and install it and then run it.

Please, go ahead as long as we have the understanding that there is a
higher than normal likelihood of problems.

> 
> It would be awesome because next week I need to get some fairly large (millions of tasks) workflows running.

I can't promise this will work, but it might be worth a shot.

Mihael