[Saga-devel] Re: Tests for Saga-Cloud paper

[Andre Merzky]

Quoting [Katerina Stamou] (Jan 14 2009):
> 
> > If 8.0.15 is not defining PG_VERSION_NUM - do you have any
> > idea how I can detect the PG version?
> 
> There's #define PG_VERSION "8.0.15" on my installation, and appears that
> you can find the same thing in 8.2.X releases too (they include both
> PG_VERSION and PG_VERSION_NUM). Don't know how you could compare the
> PG_VERSION string in your config system really.

Yes, I can try that - thanks!


> Hope my "2.93" AWS billing total is dollars, and not something else,
> like hundreds of dollars (there's no $ sign anywhere on the activity page) :)

Yes, in $ sounds about right :-)

Cheers, Andre.

> More updates soon,
> 
> Best,
> Katerina
> 
> > Thanks, Andre.
> > 
> > 
> > > Best,
> > > Katerina
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > As I had stated from the very beginning of this effort last week, I
> > > > > couldn't promise for the accomplishment of our goal, since I am really
> > > > > in Cloud Computing, as well as the relevant Saga implementations
> > > > > (Saga-MapReduce, relevant adaptors, etc) are really new and of course
> > > > > not well tested also.
> > > > 
> > > > Understood! :-)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > To sum up, I would like to first of all say that I'm really sorry for
> > > > > not being able to sufficiently contribute in the current effort. I
> > > > > really wish I had more time, and I know that I will have a lot of time
> > > > > in the future not only to conduct such trivial tests but also offer to
> > > > > the Saga-Cloud and MapReduce efforts regardless of this paper.
> > > > > Although, I ll keep continue setting up this image in EC2, it would be
> > > > > mythical to say that I'll manage in time to run the experiments and
> > > > > comment on them in the paper (as human-weak being I also have to sleep,
> > > > > and go to school ;-) ), and I don't know if it would be valuable for
> > > > > further efforts to report what I've done so far.
> > > > 
> > > > Everything helps, and is appreciated!  
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > It will be a quite tough day for me today to schedule a possible
> > > > > telecon through Skype, as I have to attend several classes and decide
> > > > > eventually which one to participate, but I'll be online on aim and I'll
> > > > > keep reading emails.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Shantenu, Andre -again my apologies for missing the our final goal, I
> > > > > really did the best I could in such little amount of time.
> > > > 
> > > > Well, I have very bad news for you: Shantenu managed to get
> > > > us an extension until Sunday night...  So, not all is lost.
> > > > 
> > > > I agree with your assessement of GumboCloud: unless there is
> > > > significant improvement (IP numbers assigned, some idea why
> > > > the new image won't run, etc), we should not put more effort
> > > > in it - it has eaten up too much time already.
> > > > 
> > > > Best, Andre.
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Best,
> > > > > Katerina
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Nothing is ever easy.
> > -- 
> > Nothing is ever easy.
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