[ogsa-bes-wg] Re: [jsdl-wg] Questions and potential changes to JSDL, as seen from HPC Profile point-of-view

[Thomas Röblitz]

Hi All,

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:23:37PM +0200, Alexander Papaspyrou wrote:
> Michel Drescher wrote
> >> The discovery ought to be "what types of job are acceptable" and not
> >> what resources are there.  Or rather, the latter is part of some
> >> administrative interface which is misleading for job-submitting users
> >> and middleware.
> > 
> > Yes! Yes! *waves the supporting flag*
> 
> I also agree. From a user's POV, I pretty much don't care on what
> resource (within the constraints I specify) the job is run, just that it
> is at some point.

If my job may run on ten different machines, I may be interested in the one
which provides the best value (objective function, min cost, min completion
time, ...). Hence, just meeting the constraints may not be sufficient.

Cheers,

  Thomas

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