Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software
Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software
Dynamics of Resources
- Single Point of Failure (SPF)
- For example, if the master scheduler fails does thesystem need restarting from scratch?- Typical SPF is only being able to run one master scheduler, so if it then fails the whole system fails.- A SPF will mean that the operators of the cluster willneed to monitor the system more closely in case of failure.