"Staging in one's own executable" is also a requirement when deploying services, another important use case for GRAM. Ian. At 09:23 AM 6/7/2006 +0100, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
The only real use for matching on CPU and OS is if you're staging in the binary executable to run as part of the job. Physicists seem to like to do that; seems to be a peculiarity of that community. We don't see the same thing to anything like as great an extent among other scientists and engineers (and we have very little CS in our usage profile, though if we did I'd expect them to be similar to the physicists). On the other hand, the physicists seem to prefer to buy their own clusters too.
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