LSF Management
- Most critical component.
- Must be kept simple for reliability. (Simplicity is Stability.)
- Submit, monitor, control batch jobs.
- Maintain history of jobs currently and previously running and report to applications for possible persistent store
- On submission request, also provide callbacks for events of interest
LSF Open Questions
- http://www.opensymphony.com/quartz/ for windows?
- http://www.opensymphony.com/osworkflow/
- Windows - when!? and Linux
- Windows important for SysTests and RM
- Other component could track full processing history, support querying of this, statistics, etc.
- Support resubmission of interesting jobs