Date

May 20, 2014

Attendees

• Kian-Tat Lim, Steve Pietrowicz, Greg Daues, Dominique Boutigny

Discussion Items

Use of OpenStack/dynamic provisioning at NCSA?

•  NCSA using static VMs
•  Some projects have worked with EC2 occasionally
•  Ask Bill Glick
•  HTCondor working with that model extensively

Steve:

•  lsst-launch was updated so jobs were running on cluster as nobody
  • HTCondor domain configuration had to be fixed
•  Still working on distributors
•   Workers will be started while others are still running on that string
  • Will need multiple slots on same machine
•  Cleaning up location-dependence

Greg:

•   Wave of jobs in one DAG

•  Slow job leads to instability
• Adding job hook for reporting/monitoring
  •  Via log file per slot or single shared log file
•  K-T will come up with new scenarios
  •  Replace previous ones that turned out to be uninteresting

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