Workload management (WP1)
What has been achieved…
Delivered a WLMS that provided batch,
interactive, parallel and checkpointable job
support
Scalable to “Job Storms” of order thousands
and 20 concurrent users. Tens of thousands of
jobs/day
What else did WP 1 produce (not in the release)…
Infrastructure
and user API for
automatically partitionable jobs.
Support
for job dependencies (via
DAGman), demonstrated at this
review.
Grid
accounting infrastructure, based
on an economic model (DGAS).
What is going on right now …
bug fixing
Preparing demo for the review
Quantification of performance for the review
The Future…
Hmmm … EGEE, LCG … WSRF… ARDA
Big implications for workload management
Personal note …
WP 1 Colleagues are amongst best and
most friendly that I have ever worked with!