W dniu 4.01.2024 o 07:56, Loris Bennett pisze:
Hi Kamil,

Kamil Wilczek <km...@mimuw.edu.pl> writes:

Dear All,

I have a question regarding the fair-share factor of the multifactor
priority algorithm. My current understanding is that the fair-share
makes sure that different *accounts* have a fair share of the
computational power.

But what if my organisation structure is flat and I have only one
account where all my user reside. Is fair-share algorithm working
in this situation -- does it take into account users (associations)
from this single account, and tries to assing a fair-factor to each
user? Or each user from this account have the same fair-factor at
each iteration?

And what if I have, say 3 accounts, but I do not wan't to calculate
fair-share between accounts, but between all associations from all
3 accounts? In other words, is there a fair-share factor for
users/associations instead of accounts?

Kind regards

We have a similar situation.  We do in fact have an account for each
research group and the groups are associated with institutes and
departments, but we use FairShare=parent so that all users are given the
same number of shares and thus treated equally by the fair-share
mechanism.


Hi Loris,

but is the "FairShare=parent" still works for the Fair Tree, which is
the default algorithm since 19.05? I can find this option only for the
Classic Fair Share.

And I'm trying to differentiate between users, so that they are not
treated equally by the algorithm. Heavy users should have a lower
factor.

I think I could create an account for each user, but is that a common
practice and not an overkill?

I'm also trying to understand the Fair Tree, because there is a section
when it says that users can have different factors if their common
ancestor accounts have different factors. But what if they have only one
single common ancestor? Would then association/users still be sorted by
the fair-factor?

Kind regards,
--

Cheers,

Loris


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