On 17/04/15 02:26, Alex Chekholko wrote: > IIRC most of their jobs ran for just milliseconds, so as we've learned > many times before, the way they do things at Google may not really be > applicable to the rest of the world.
Possibly, though a friend of mine who works there (and who pointed me at the paper) remarked (when I mentioned that the paper said that jobs could run "to a few days"): # it's what we use to run thousands of instances of permanent # jobs as well and: # in practice I regularly have tasks run months All the best, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
