Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software
Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software
Job Scheduling and Allocation Policy
- Minimise Impact on a Workstation and Owner
- suspend jobs, change priority (nice), migrate jobs, etc.- Undesirable impact when a job is suspended, checkpointed or migrated.- Process migration requires a job to saves its state and isthen physically moved over the network to another w/s.- Impact on CPU/memory/diskspace while state is savedand on network when Mbytes of data is transferred.