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Foil 33 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 Check Pointing
  • Save state at regular intervals during job execution. If theworkstation fails then the job can be restarted at its lastcheckpointed position.
3 Useful, but can be costly in terms of resources- Small job - rerun- Time critical job - necessary- Large jobs - costly
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