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Re: NUG teleconference Thu Dec 15 |
| Author: |
Doug Swesty <dswesty_at_blackhole.ess.sunysb.edu> |
| Date: |
2005-12-15 09:12:01 |
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I just tried to call in and I am getting a message that "the conference
you are attempting to join has reached capacity" when I enter the
passcode. If there is an alternative route by which I can join please let
me know via email.
Doug
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 06:37 pm, Francesca Verdier wrote:
> The next NUG teleconference is this Thursday, December 15 at 9:00 am
> Pacific Time. On the agenda:
>
> Contributed by David Dean:
>
> 1-- How is bassi doing (what performance levels are people seeing)
> and what is the timeline on acceptance and general use?
> 2--Now that the regular ERCAP resources have been allocated, a report on
> that process (allocated hours vs requested hours, etc.) would be good.
> 3--What is the status of INCITE for FY06 (does any one know)?
>
> Contributed by Stephane Ethier and David Mikkelsen:
>
> Discuss issues of job scheduling on Jacquard: PBS Pro tends to fill up
> the machine with small jobs and leave larger jobs (even 32 CPUs is large
> in this context) waiting for days or weeks. The long term solution is
> probably to get a better scheduler (as we plan to do at PPPL). The only
> short-term solution I can see is to divide the cluster into groups with
> different minimum job sizes. The number of nodes in each group could be
> adjusted (on a weekly basis?) to match the mix of jobs submitted. To be
> concrete: I propose that 240 nodes be moved into a new queue that has a
> minimum job size of 16 nodes.
>
> To participate:
>
> Toll Numbers: USA & International Callers 1-203-480-4547
>
> TollFree Numbers: USA 866-773-1714
>
> Participant Passcode: 996820
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F. Douglas Swesty
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook
email: dswesty@mail.astro.sunysb.edu
www: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/dswesty
phone: (631)-632-8055 FAX: (631)-632-1745
Postal mail: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794+3800
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