Re: checkpointing architecture

["Andriy Y. Fedorov" <fedorov@CS.WM.EDU>]

> >From the back of my head, I can think of the following elements of such an
> architecture:
> 
> - AAA (accounting, charging etc.)
> - scheduling of resources
> - resource brokers
> - data management for checkpoint files
> - checkpoint history (versioning for a single run)
> - other meta data (which?)
> - application status monitoring
> - user job interface (->portals?)
> 
> Does this set of elements sound reasonable? Any omissions? Anything that does
> not belong here? 
> 
> Which relations can we (should we) describe?
> 
> 
> Anybody out there who is willing to get a discussion continued?
> 

   Thilo,

   Can you comment on each of the items you've mentioned, meaning, why and
when those can be necessary/important? It's is hard to catch up as I did
not attend GGF7, and probably you have discussed these issues earlier...
Thank you.

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  Andriy Fedorov

  College of William and Mary
  Department of Computer Science, PO Box 8795
  Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, USA