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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:05:33PM +0200 or thereabouts, Maarten Litmaath, CERN wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> please let us know what other kinds of job execution requirements for the
> batch system should be expressible in the JDL and subsequently forwarded
> to the batch system.

As a start start 

cputime, walltime and mem must the be most usefull. After that
architecture. 

globus submissions already supports a certain set of these so just being 
able to fill in what it supports. 

> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:16:41 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Massimo Sgaravatto - INFN Padova <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maarten LITMAATH <[log in to unmask]>,
>      David Smith <[log in to unmask]>,
>      "Charles (Cal) Loomis" <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: Francesco Prelz <[log in to unmask]>,
>      Giuseppe Fiorentino <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Forward requirements to local batch system
> 
> Dear all
> 
> I have just been given the task to try to better undestand the 
> requirement:
> 
> "Forward requirements to local batch system" 
> 
> set in the JRA1 workplan (looks like there were some misunderstandings 
> concerning who had to take care about that).
> 
> 
> As far as I am told, the issue was raised in particular by Cal. I think 
> that also David and Maarten are the right candidates to start the 
> discussion with.
> 
> So, could you please elaborate such requirement ?
> 
> 
> Do you mean that the various constraints expressed in the "JDL 
> requirement" expression should be translated in the proper batch system 
> directive and used when submitting the job, or were you thinking about 
> something different ?
> 
> 
> How about different batch systems supporting a different set of 
> attributes ?
> Should all the supported (by the used batch system) attributes be 
> translated, or only a minimum common (supported by all the supported 
> batch system) set of attributes should be considered ?
> 
> 
> How about translating requirement expressions specified on multiple CE 
> attributes, as the following example (taken from a real atlas production 
> job):
> 
> Requirements = other.GlueCEPolicyMaxCPUTime >= ( 14000000 / 60 ) / 
> other.GlueHostBenchmarkSI00 ) 
> 
> ?
> 
> Let's start the discussion :-)
> 
> 			Cheers, Massimo

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