[Beowulf] Paper describing Google's queuing system "Borg"

[Deepak Singh]

That is correct. The architecture assumes that many of the jobs are "services", which tend to run for long periods of time.  




Deepak

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Christopher Samuel
<samuel at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> On 17/04/15 02:26, Alex Chekholko wrote:
>> IIRC most of their jobs ran for just milliseconds, so as we've learned
>> many times before, the way they do things at Google may not really be
>> applicable to the rest of the world.
> Possibly, though a friend of mine who works there (and who pointed me at
> the paper) remarked (when I mentioned that the paper said that jobs
> could run "to a few days"):
> # it's what we use to run thousands of instances of permanent
> # jobs as well
>  and:
> # in practice I regularly have tasks run months
> All the best,
> Chris
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