HTCondor's parallel universe works a little differently than all
other HTCondor universes with respect to accounting. Because it may
take several negotiation cycles for the parallel universe to
accumulate enough machines to run even one job, the machines are
claimed not on behalf of the user who will run the job, but on
behalf of the scheduler itself, named the DedicatedScheduler. You
can see this by looking at the "RemoteOwner" attribute in the startd
ad, which will look something like
"DedicatedScheduler@submit-machine-name". The usage is then charged
to this (non) user until the job starts, after which time, the usage
is charged user who started the job.
This usage is the number of wall-hours, not cpu-hours. In you
direct measurements, are you shows cpu-time or wall time?
-greg
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