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Foil 54 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 Dynamics of Resources
2 Fault Tolerance - Is there fault tolerance built in ?
  • - For example, does it check that resources are available beforesubmitting jobs to them, and will it try to rerun a job after aworkstation has crashed.- The CMS should be able to guarantee that a job will complete. - If while a job is running the machine that it is running on failsthen the CMS notice that the machine/s are unavailable, butshould also reschedule the job as soon as feasible.
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