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Longjobs project status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Mar 20 23:21:56 2000
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:21:50 -0500
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Project Name: Longjobs
Project Leader:Robert Basch
Report Date : March 20, 2000
Submitted by: Robert Basch
URL:http://web.mit.edu/longjobs
Recent accomplishments:
- Received and reviewed more responses to our web form. The responses
suggest that our service description is a pretty good match to the
expressed need.
- Decided to recommend a group-based quota system, to which a billing
component could be added if necessary:
- The service will support "reservations" for course work, via
access-controlled queues.
- A general queue would serve individual users, who would still be
required to register for the service.
- Access would be administered by faculty liaisons and/or accounts.
- We estimate that 20 machines should be in the initial pool of slaves,
at a cost of about $5K per slave, with a 2-year renewal. We expect
the master to have a higher cost, maybe around $15K, including some
form of redundancy.
- We have initial estimates of the dev, ops, and support resources required
for development and ongoing maintenance of the service, though these
need to be worked out in more detail.
- Made some progress on a prototype based on PBS, using forwarded tickets.
- Tracked down some issues concerning ticket/token renewal.
Upcoming goals:
- Work out some details of how reservations would work.
- Prepare to report back to the "December 17" group about the expressed
needs for a longjobs service.
- More prototype work.
- Begin planning of a project pilot.
Issues:
- Much of the expressed need is to run SGI-specific software.
