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Foil 31 Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
1 Job Scheduling and Allocation Policy
2 Minimise Impact on a Workstation and Owner
3 - 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.
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