Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of CreditOptions

Timestamp:

May 15, 2018, 11:48:46 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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CreditOptions

@@ -36 +36 @@
 == Pre-assigned credit ==
 
-You can use this if each job does the same computation.
+You can use this if the amount of computation done by each job is known in advance,
+e.g. if all jobs do the same computation.
 Measure the runtime on a machine with known Whetstone benchmarks.
 Pick a machine with enough RAM that you're not paging.
@@ -48 +49 @@
 some job attribute (e.g. input file size) that's known in advance.
 
-Currently specified with the --additional_xml flag or argument to create_work (cmdline or API).
-This is ugly.
+To specify:
+ * use the --credit argument to the create_work cmdline program
+ * if using the C++ API, assign wu.canonical_credit in the first argument.
 
-Proposal: make it an official argument to both local and remote job-submission APIs.
+TODO: add to remote job submissions RPCs if anyone wants.
 
 == Post-assigned credit ==