Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of AppPlan

Timestamp:

Mar 20, 2008, 9:23:11 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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AppPlan

@@ -46 +46 @@
 The client uses '''flops''' to estimate job completion times.
 
-The scheduler reply includes, for each app version, an XML encoding of HOST_USAGE.
+The scheduler reply includes, for each job, an XML encoding of HOST_USAGE.
 
 The client keeps track of coprocessor allocation, i.e. how many instances of each are free.
 It only runs an app if enough instances are available.
 
-
 == Notes ==
 
  * It's not always optimal to use only the version with highest FLOPS.  Suppose there's a GPU version and a multithread version.  On some machines it might be best to use some of each.
+ * The server code that estimates completion times currently doesn't know about multiprocessors or coprocessors.
+ * The client scheduling and work-fetch code also doesn't know about multiprocessors or coprocessors.