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Re: [Condor-users] dagman progress as classad?
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:48:28 +0200
- From: Horvátth Szabolcs <szabolcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Condor-users] dagman progress as classad?
Hi Kent,
Horvath, are you coming to Condor Week? Himani Apte is going to talk
about her research in incorporating ClassAds into DAGMan.
I won't be at the Condor Week but I'd be most interested in this research.
We're using dagman on windows extensively (and exclusively) and I'm very
curious about possible additions.
What she has done so far doesn't exactly address what you're interested
in, but it would certainly make it easier to do what you want. Himani is
interested in hearing what people want to do with DAGMan to take advantage
of the capabilities of ClassAds.
The three most important things I miss from dagman are:
- Inter dag-job communication. At the moment there is no way to
communicate between dependent
dag jobs, the only solution is modifying the child's submit file after a
parent job completes.
A problem with this, is that if a parent job is restarted after
completion there is no way to restart
the child jobs without serious condor_qedit hacking, since the submit
file modifications are not propagated
into the job queue. If we had classAd attributes on the parent node that
could be updated on a job and
child jobs could read them (possibly through environment variables) than
these job connections worked
much simpler and no file modification was required.
- Dagman status attributes, something along the lines of my previous mail.
- L:icense management at the dagman level: don't submit jobs if there is
no sufficient license since
jobs would just sit in the queue and force pointless negotiation. Needs
a license management framework though.
Cheers,
Szabolcs