Re: [Chtc-users] New Job Attribute

[Miron Livny <miron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree, Dan. Good point.  Miron



Daniel Forrest wrote:
> Miron,
>
> > It will help us when deciding how to "drain" nodes for jobs that
> > require a multi-core machine or several nodes. It will be also used
> > to run jobs in "back fill" mode in such cases.  At this point we do
> > not plan on using this infomration to assign priorities.
> You can always run Standard Universe jobs up to the point that a node
> is ready to be claimed for a single user regardless of any of these
> constraints because they can be checkpointed within a few minutes.
>
> I also don't see that a Standard Universe job really needs to specify
> "estimated_run_hours" for that same reason.
>
> I hope these policies are designed to take that into account.