Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software
Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software
Job Scheduling and Allocation Policy
- Process Migration
Migrating executing processes from one w/s to another.
- Minimise impact on w/s - owner takes back control.- Suspend job and then migrate it onto another w/safter a certain time interval. - Load balancing -- heavily -> lightly loaded systems.- Complicated on anything other for sequential jobs.- Similar impact to checkpointing + large state files movedaround the network - impact on network.