[gin-jobs] Standarized Execution Environment

[Dave Berry]

Have you considered the use of virtualisation technologies such as Xen
or VMWare?

I've heard that VMWare provide a free package that allows you to wrap an
application and all the libraries (and OS?) that it depends on so that
you can run it on any machine - but I don't know the details.

Dave.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gin-jobs-bounces at ogf.org 
> [mailto:gin-jobs-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Laurence Field
> Sent: 28 March 2007 15:42
> To: gin-jobs at ogf.org
> Subject: [gin-jobs] Standarized Execution Environment
> 
> Hi,
> 
> One of the problems that we found during the interoperation 
> activities 
> was with the different environments found on the worker nodes in the 
> different grids.  Getting the jobs to arrive on the worker 
> node is one 
> problem, ensuring that the jobs run correctly is another and this 
> problem has mainly been overlooked.  During the joint operations 
> workshop in Bologna between OSG and EGEE this problem was 
> brought up and 
> discussed. The result was the following document which suggests 
> standardizing the execution environment.
> 
> http://edms.cern.ch/document/630962
> 
> I have already scheduled a BOF at OGF 20 to discuss this 
> issue further.
> 
> Feedback on this topic is more than welcome.
> 
> 
> Laurence
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