Hi Andrea, Fotis, On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Andrea Cristofori <andrea.cristofori@cnaf.infn.it> wrote:
* You may wish to provide the ability to report "container job ID", ref.
http://oar.imag.fr/sources/2.5/docs/documentation/OAR-DOCUMENTATION-USER/#co... As name suggests it permits to first make a reservation there run your jobs in it; it can be a useful feature for billing, eg. if you organize an HPC school and, would rather wish to avoid charging twice, for trainee jobs within trainer's job. (just an example, they have many more uses)
I am not sure why this would be necessary. If the accounting takes is based only on the CPU time then there should be no problem on how many processes are or jobs are run. But maybe I am missing something here.
I think this is similar to pilot jobs: a pilot (container) is submitted to a batch system, and once executed, that pilot job will run many smaller subjobs on its own. So, pilots are basically a user level scheduling overlay over the batch system. IIUC, Fotis' use case is if a container job is submitted under account (A), and the subjobs are started under account (B), (C) etc. -- then accounting should ideally be done to (B), (C).... I also find this useful - we work heavily with pilot jobs, and for example in gateway use cases, multi-user pilots are not uncommon. But there are more issues than just the accounting record, in particular security (the other two A's). But Oar seems to have container jobs built in, so security is probably given -- in that context, accounting support makes lot of sense... My $0.02, Andre.
kind regards, Fotis
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