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[J Arshad]

Hi,


On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Borja Sotomayor wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Firstly, One of the files I want to change is the sample_trace.conf i.e.
>> I want to have resources with different capabilities. Currently, all the
>> nodes are assumed to have the same characteristics e.g. CPU,Mem etc. using
>> the "resources" option in the sample_trace.conf( please correct me if I am
>> wrong). However, I want to add an extra characteristic e.g. availability
>> of "MRI device" with the resources and for this, I assume that not all the
>> resources will have such device. I tried to have multiple "resources"
>> options but, of course, that does not seem to work. Could you please
>> suggest something in this regard...
>
> Adding new resource "dimensions" is not too hard, and can be done simply
> by modifying the "resources" option of the [simulation] section.
> However, I'm assuming what you need is to create a simulated resource
> pool with heterogeneous resources (some having an MRI device and others
> not, the same way some nodes could have X memory and others Y memory).
> This is currently not supported, as nodes are assumed to be homogeneous
> (actually, the underlying code supports having heterogeneous nodes;
> there is just currently no way of specifying this in the configuration
> file).
>
> This will eventually get added to Haizea, but is not something that has
> a high priority for me right now. If you are interested in implementing
> this feature, I can point you to the parts of the code that would have
> to be modified.

Taking this forward, yes, I am concerned with heterogeneous resources and 
it will be really helpful if you could point me to the code to be 
modified...

Cheers,

Junaid