[GRIDCPR-WG] CPR Document - final call

[Eduardo Huedo Cuesta]

Dear All,

 From the GridWay team, we would like to propose another consumer 
use-case that we think is within the scope of GridRPC. See below.

Best Regards,

Eduardo Huedo.

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GridWay Metascheduler
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The GridWay Metascheduler [1, 2], now a Globus project, adapts job 
execution to changing grid conditions by providing fault recovery 
mechanisms, dynamic scheduling, migration on-request and opportunistic 
migration [3]. Migration is implemented by restarting the job on the new 
candidate host, therefore the job should generate restart files at 
regular intervals in order to continue execution from a given point. If 
checkpointing files are not provided, the job is restarted from the 
beginning. GridWay periodically retrieves to the client machine or a 
checkpoint server (GridFTP URL) the restart architecture-independent files.

Jobs submitted with GridWay could benefit from GridCPR systems providing 
standard and uniform APIs and services for portable checkpoint 
generation and storage.

Functional requirements
. API for application state writing and reading.
. Services for failure notification.
. Services for checkpoint data management.

[1] GridWay Metascheduler. http://www.gridway.org/.
[2] E. Huedo, R.S. Montero and I.M. Llorente: A framework for adaptive 
execution on grids. Software - Practice and Experience 34 (7): 631-651, 
2004.
[3] E. Huedo, R. S. Montero, I. M. Llorente: Evaluating the reliability 
of computational grids from the end user's point of view. Journal of 
Systems Architecture 52(12): 727-736, 2006.

Andre Merzky escribió:
> Hi groups, 
>
> as discussed earlier, we put some effort into the GridCPR
> documents, to get them back into the editor pipeline.
> Thanks to Nathan and others, both the CPR usecase and the
> cpr architecture document have now all public comments
> addressed, and are to be submitted to the OGF editor.
>
> The docs are supposed to represent groups consensus after
> submission, so, this mail is a one week final call on the
> mailing list:  please review the documents, and comment on
> them!   "speak now or forever hold your peace ..." :-)
>
> Cheers, Andre.
>
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Dr. Eduardo Huedo Cuesta
Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores
  y Automática
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
C/ Prof. García Santesmases s/n
28040 Madrid
Spain

Tel:   +34 91 394 76 03
Fax:   +34 91 394 75 27
Email: ehuedo at fdi.ucm.es

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