[GRIDCPR-WG] CPR Document - final call

[Thilo Kielmann]

All,

I am not sure what to do with this comment. (And I am not sure if we can
do this, formally, at this stage of the process.)

Anyway, just for doing something reasonable, I am in favour of adding this
use case.


Thilo


On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 03:23:58PM +0200, Eduardo Huedo Cuesta wrote:
> From: Eduardo Huedo Cuesta <ehuedo at fdi.ucm.es>
> To: Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>
> Cc: gridcpr-wg at ogf.org, SAGA RG <saga-rg at ogf.org>
> Subject: Re: [GRIDCPR-WG] CPR Document - final call
> 
> 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.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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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Thilo Kielmann                                 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/