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David Anderson b2451544e1 - server: change the following from per-host to per-(host, app version):
- daily quota mechanism
    - reliable mechanism (accelerated retries)
    - "trusted" mechanism (adaptive replication)
- scheduler: enforce host scale probation only for apps with
    host_scale_check set.
- validator: do scale probation on invalid results
    (need this in addition to error and timeout cases)
- feeder: update app version scales every 10 min, not 10 sec
- back-end apps: support --foo as well as -foo for options

Notes:
- If you have, say, cuda, cuda23 and cuda_fermi plan classes,
    a host will have separate quotas for each one.
    That means it could error out on 100 jobs for cuda_fermi,
    and when its quota goes to zero,
    error out on 100 jobs for cuda23, etc.
    This is intentional; there may be cases where one version
    works but not the others.
- host.error_rate and host.max_results_day are deprecated

TODO:
    - the values in the app table for limits on jobs in progress etc.
        should override rather than config.xml.

Implementation notes:
scheduler:
    process_request():
        read all host_app_versions for host at start;
        Compute "reliable" and "trusted" for each one.
        write modified records at end
    get_app_version():
        add "reliable_only" arg; if set, use only reliable versions
        skip over-quota versions
    Multi-pass scheduling: if have at least one reliable version,
        do a pass for jobs that need reliable,
        and use only reliable versions.
        Then clear best_app_versions cache.
    Score-based scheduling: for need-reliable jobs,
        it will pick the fastest version,
        then give a score bonus if that version happens to be reliable.
    When get back a successful result from client:
        increase daily quota
    When get back an error result from client:
        impose scale probation
        decrease daily quota if not aborted
Validator:
    when handling a WU, create a vector of HOST_APP_VERSION
        parallel to vector of RESULT.
        Pass it to assign_credit_set().
        Make copies of originals so we can update only modified ones
    update HOST_APP_VERSION error rates
Transitioner:
    decrease quota on timeout


svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=21181
2010-04-15 03:13:56 +00:00
David Anderson 1d765245ed - scheduler: sweeping changes to the way job runtimes are estimated:
see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/RuntimeEstimation


svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=21153
2010-04-08 23:14:47 +00:00
David Anderson 84afd18450 - scheduler: move app-version selection and score-based scheduling
to new files.

svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=17630
2009-03-19 16:35:35 +00:00