Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 4 1996
Foil 33 Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software
From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. byMark Baker
Job Scheduling and Allocation Policy
Check Pointing
Save state at regular intervals during job execution. If theworkstation fails then the job can be restarted at its lastcheckpointed position.
Useful, but can be costly in terms of resources- Small job - rerun- Time critical job - necessary- Large jobs - costly
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