OSG Provisioning Discussion Feb 5, 2014 FNAL

Attendees:

Lothar Bauerdick
Brian Bockelman
Burt Holzman
John Hover
Miron Livny
Chander Seagal
Igor Sfiligoi


AM
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-- black hole strategies. glidein parks a 20-minute job to short-circuit black hole
M: we are running a condor cluster on your resource. create a local collector specific to that resource. This would allow info to be gathered.
  -- how do you know when you truly have one? A?: job duration
  -- is there a way for the scheduler to be asked to omit a WN?

Chander: Interested in how to manage getting resources for a VO. 

?? Should a glidein that doesn't get matched exist with a non-zero code? I.e. be considered a "failure".

 --Why 20 minutes? Configurable both by fact & vo.

 WMS (Workload Management System) vs.   RPS (Resource Provisioning System)
 
 Pressure group: equivalence class of work that partitions resources. 
 Measure: magnitude of pressure (a number). 
 
 Resource Group? What should be the definition? 
  
 Resource Supplier  (CE, queue)? n-tuple?, i.e. equivalence set of suppliers
     ? grid resource+gloubsrsl 
     ?(sid, resourceexp)
     
 Supplier specification?
   EC2 node types
   EC2 spot ? different suppliers for 
   
PM
Opportunistic pool issues/needs. 

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