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Foil 4 Definitions

From Summary of DATORR Users Group Second DATORR Meeting Sandia National Laboratory -- February 15-16 1999. by Piyush Mehrotra
1 Task is a
  • a simple task: a set of resources (data sources and sinks) + an action to be performed on them, or
  • a compound set of tasks + resources
  • dependencies
  • represented by "task object" which may have properties, e.g., a context
2 Job is an instantiation of a task object
  • represented by "job object"?
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