[GRIDCPR-WG] CPR Document - final call

[Eduardo Huedo Cuesta]

Sorry, I meant GridCPR!

Eduardo Huedo Cuesta escribió:
> 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
> =================
>
> 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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