I completely agree. We have a web page where people can see - where their jobs are running - what sort of resources were requested - the peak resources actually used - wall time remaining (orange highlighted at 20% remaining and red at 10% remaining)
On 20 December 2017 at 03:41, Peter Clapham <p...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > Show back of utilization and use patterns openly also removes admins from > being “the Police”. > > Instead each user of the system can see who is requesting excessive > memory, using inappropriate queues or just inefficient workloads at scale. > This creates a self-Policing environment and certainly both re-enforces a > community feel and improves communication between the groups of users. > Pete > > On 12/6/17, 6:36 PM, "Beowulf on behalf of Tim Cutts" < > beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of t...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > > Of course, if you charge for your cluster time, that hurts them in the > wallet, since they pay for all the allocated unused time. If you don’t > charge (which is the case for us) it’s hard to incentivise them not to do > this. Shame works, a bit. We publish cluster analytics showing CPU > efficiency and memory efficiency league tables for the users, and that has > had some good effects in the past... > > Tim > > > On 6 Dec 2017, at 18:20, David Mathog <mat...@caltech.edu> wrote: > > > > on Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:39:20 +1100 Chris Samuel wrote: > >> If this is, as I suspect is likely, bioinformatics code it could > well be that > >> it is a pipeline type application and only part of the application > may be able > >> to make use of parallelism (and then might not be very good at it). > > > > Exactly. Super frustrating to set something like '--cpus=40' and > then watch the resulting heap of programs sit for long periods of time > (hours, not seconds) running only on a single CPU. > > > > Regards, > > > > David Mathog > > mat...@caltech.edu > > Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > > > -- > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > > > > -- > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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