Testing

1
Testing

• News
• Full time contractor (dedicated to SciDAC
  testing)
• Summer Student
• Goals and deliverables of summer work
• Stress a performance testing of the SciDAC
  software
• Comparisons with related efforts
• Tech report

2
What is important

• Scheduler and Job launch performance?
• Initialization overheads allocation, staging,
• Scalability
• Do we need to evaluate different types of job
  models?
• Queue manager performance?
• What is the metric?
• Scalability limits?
• I/O issues
• Staging data
• Checkpoint/restart
• File system issues
• Overhead (and analysis) of various protocols and
  interfaces
• Understanding scalability limitations

3
What do you want tested?

• Where is performance critical, but effort to
  evaluate performance limited?

4
What and where

• BG/L at Argonne
• Linux clusters (at ORNL)
• LBNL?
• Others
• Testbed issues
• What do we need to sufficiently evaluate SSS?

5
Apples to Apples

• Competing software?