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Foil 35 Desirable Features of Metacomputing Management Software

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
Job Scheduling and Allocation Policy
Process Migration
  • Migrating executing processes from one w/s to another.
- Minimise impact on w/s - owner takes back control.- Suspend job and then migrate it onto another w/safter a certain time interval. - Load balancing -- heavily -> lightly loaded systems.- Complicated on anything other for sequential jobs.- Similar impact to checkpointing + large state files movedaround the network - impact on network.

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