Re: [geclipse-dev] A question to workflows

[Ariel Garcia <garcia@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> I have a very general question to workflows. I submitted a workflow
> consisting of three jobs: A, B and C. B depends on A and C depends on B.
> In my case job A failed (the famous hit job shallow retry count). Does
> it then make sense to proceed with jobs B and C? I do not believe this
> is under our control, right?

A->B->C

In that case job B should not even be able to start, because it depends on 
A, so it has to wait for it to finish.

Different would be that case 
  A-> B <-C
where B depends on the two independent jobs/inputs A,C
If A fails, of course C (running in parallel) could be canceled.
If that happens of not is probably dependent on the workflow engine 
implementation.
My guess would be that glite cancels the job but it is just a guess. Just 
give it a try ;-)

Ariel