Re: [HTCondor-users] HTCondor diagram of daemons

[Todd L Miller <tlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Because I will be talking to RSEʼs who might be skeptical that the extra 
> > process steps have tangible benefits, Iʼd like to be able to explain some 
> > of the robustness features enabled by this design.

...

> The more important property to maintain is that, in the presence
> of errors and crashes, that we leave the machine in a state where we can
> continue to operate after a reboot or restart.

	From the perspective of someone submitting jobs, HTCondor takes 
the position that robustness means that the submitter doesn't have to take 
any particular action because of a hardware or software failure; HTCondor 
won't forget the job and will (eventually) run it again.

- ToddM