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Foil 44 Features and Functionality Desired in a CMS Package

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Job Scheduling and Allocation Policy
2 - Load balancing the cluster - migrating from heavily loadedworkstations and running them on lightly loaded ones.- Potentially of becoming very complicated on anything otherthan sequential jobs.- Like checkpointing - can be a very useful feature.- Impact is similar to checkpointing, additional disadvantage isthat large state files are moved around the network. This canhave a serious impact on users of the network.
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