[Beowulf] Jeff Squayres MPI proposals

[Justin Y. Shi]

It's also interesting to observe the API designs follow XML (key, value)
pair in all these startups that want to handle failures ...

Justin

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:32 AM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Indeed.  Some interesting news here:
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> http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/03/04/docker-acquires-apache-aurora-founders/
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> Us old style guys are going to have our lunch money stolen by young
> upstarts. Or is that startups?
> Seriously - these guys know how to keep things running at scale and how to
> tolerate failures.
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> On 3 March 2016 at 23:30, Christopher Samuel <samuel at unimelb.edu.au>
> wrote:
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>> On 04/03/16 06:40, Douglas Eadline wrote:
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>> > Yes, failure needs to be option.
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>> The Slurm folks have been working on failure management support for a
>> little while, the idea being you can have a pool of spare nodes to pick
>> from (or alternatively bargain with a scheduler for a node that's
>> currently busy to come free later on and then add it to the job,
>> potentially extending the walltime to make up for the shortfall).
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>> A better description from someone with higher caffeination is here:
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>> http://slurm.schedmd.com/nonstop.html
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>> All the best,
>> Chris
>> --
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>>  VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
>>  Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
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