Re: Running Ada programs under Condor?

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>]

In article <3BF27BB2.29ACF5DF@Raytheon.com>, "Mark Johnson"
<Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com> wrote:

> "Bobby D. Bryant" wrote:
> 
>> In article <iphI7.23607$xS6.37669@www.newsranger.com>, "Ted Dennison"
>> [snip]
>> > I'm guessing this: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/description.html
>> >
>> > ..but its just a guess.
>>
>> And a correct one it is.  By policy, the only way I can harvest
>> cycles for long-running jobs on the CS department's largish
>> collection of machines is to run them under Condor, [snip]
> 
> Just curious, but how much Ada code are we talking about? I can
> rebuild applications with over a million lines of Ada code in a couple
> hours using the PC at my desk (about $1200). Most fixes get rebuilt in
> a few minutes. With that kind of performance, I would be surprised you
> need to spend the effort to checkpoint the compiler.

I guess I wasn't clear.  It's the running jobs that are checkpointed.
However, since Condor manages the checkpointing your executable has to
have some Condor modules linked in.

It doesn't require any changes to your source, so I ass-u-me that
they just replace some standard library modules with their own.  That's
what makes me thing gcc-based GNAT might work with it.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas