[saga-rg] JobService.submitJob() query

[Andre Merzky]

Hi Steven,

You are right, specifying the RM instead of target host
makes sense in the cases you mention.  Fine with me.

Thanks, Andre.

Quoting [Steven Newhouse] (Feb 22 2006):
> 
> >Well, then we have the ability to specify a resource manager
> >contact for run_job, and a target resource on job_submit.
> >But no combination seems possible.
> 
> I would go for the resource manager as the thing being specified. The 
> notion of specifying a host seems strange with large clusters & resource 
> brokers. If the underlying middleware exposes each underlying host as an 
> execution target... then effectively each host has its own 'resource 
> manager' capability.
> 
> >The host in run_job would then specify the target
> >resource ("" for 'any resource' I guess).
> 
> On its own I'd consider this an invalid argument. If there are 
> additional attributes being provided to qualify resource selection... 
> maybe OK. But the "" I would see as input to a resource broker which 
> would select a resource manager as the execution target. Not a 
> capability embedded into the current SAGA layer. My 2p.
> 
> Steven
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