On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:30:00AM +0100 or thereabouts, Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> LHC Computer Grid - Rollout
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Templon
> said:
> > I intepreted the original call for comments to be about A
> > above, not B
> > or C. The question was for A, what else can you think of
> > besides 'cput'
> > that you'd want passed from the grid layer into the LRMS layer.
>
> It seems to me that the cpu (and wallclock) times are unusual in that
> they are properties of the queue, whereas everything else you might
> specify is a property of the WN. (Of couse there's a sub-issue that the
> real requirement is for something like specint-seconds, I doubt anyone
> really wants 5 minutes on any CPU ...) Hence it would probably be better
> to take something like physical memory as a canonical example, and
> regard time limits as a special case. That also implies that your A and
> B are interlinked, if you can't tell that there are higher-spec WNs the
> question of how you specify them is moot ...
All of these things software/cputime/walltime are just job requirements.
If these were passed through we would only have one queue for everything.
Steve
>
> Stephen
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