Re: [Condor-devel] Fwd: RFC: Parallel classad evaluations

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might find some problem-inspiration in Ameet Kini's 
work:

http://gradworks.umi.com/32/78/3278993.html

-Erik

On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 08:15:09PM -0500, Ziliang Guo wrote:
> 
> 
> As some of you may be aware of, I'm working on parallelizing classad
> matchmaking for my ME964 project.  Right now I have an implementation
> that takes in a single job classad and multiple machine ads and spins
> up multiple threads to search for a match amongst the machine ads.
> Another possibility is to have multiple threads each trying to find
> matches for a different job, though that one is a bit more complicated
> to pull off thanks to us modifying the machine ads during the
> matchmaking process (old classad compatibility hacks ftw....).  Does
> anyone else have any suggestions for other variations that may be
> useful or comments on the above two methods (keeping in mind only the
> single job vs multiple machine match has been implemented and tested
> so far)?
> 
> Long term there is also a question of whether there is any point in
> trying to parallelize the parsing of a classad from the raw text into
> its expression tree, or whether this is even possible.  Really long
> term, would it be possible to generate data structures such that we
> could attempt a match making operation on a GPU.
> 
> Note: Yes, I probably should have sent this out much earlier, like
> beginning of last week.
> 
> Z
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