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Foil 44 Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
Dynamics of Resources
Fault Tolerance
- System should check that resources are available beforesubmitting jobs.- Rerun a job after a workstation has crashed.- Guarantee that a job will complete. - Automatically recover status and continue to run afterfailure.- Level of fault tolerance is determined by the servicebeing provided.

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