3.5. Job dependencies on system environment
As shown earlier, a grid application does not require a homogenous runtime environment, but there are certain considerations to be made in order to plan for the most beneficial deployment of it.
For any job in a grid application the following environmental factors may affect its operation. When developing an application, one must consider these factors and either design it to be as independent of these factors as possible, or understand that any dependencies will need to be taken into account within the grid infrastructure.
Operating Systems version, service level, and OS parameter settings that are necessary for execution of the job, as well its reliance on certain system services and auxiliary programs ...
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