[Clusterusers] request for CPU time

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

Also, just as a note: The ten million render jobs I just spooled are 
using Macs only, so shouldn't interfere....
     -Josiah


On 12/11/13 5:52 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>     I took the liberty of pausing task launches on Tom's other two 
> jobs as well, which had not been done. If this was not what I should 
> have done, let me know.
>     -Josiah
>
> On 12/11/13 5:43 PM, Jaime Davila wrote:
>> Thank you, Tom. It is truly greatly appreciated.
>>
>> On 12/11/2013 03:08 PM, Thomas Helmuth wrote:
>>> Hi Jaime,
>>>
>>> I have paused the task launches for my less important jobs, and 
>>> won't start any more new jobs that aren't super important. We have 
>>> deadlines coming up in mid January, so I should be able to hold off 
>>> a bit. Let me know when you're done so I can run full force again.
>>>
>>> -Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Jaime Davila 
>>> <jdavila at hampshire.edu <mailto:jdavila at hampshire.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Greetings everyone,
>>>
>>>     Hope that the semester is ending up in good form for all of you.
>>>     I'm writing because I am about to finish writing a paper for a
>>>     conference, due on December 20th (Friday of next week), and I
>>>     could use as many CPU cycles as I can get. Right now the
>>>     processes that tend to run are taking 30-45 minutes, as opposed
>>>     to the 15-20 minutes that they often take. I'm not sure if
>>>     others are working on a deadline too, but would it be possible
>>>     for others to wait until after the 20th to start new jobs? It
>>>     would make a difference. Of course, I do realize that everyone
>>>     might have deadlines right now, in which case we should all
>>>     carry on as we are.
>>>
>>>     Let me know what you think.
>>>
>>>     Many thanks,
>>>
>>>     Jaime
>>>
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> Wm. Josiah Erikson
> Assistant Director of IT, Infrastructure Group
> System Administrator, School of CS
> Hampshire College
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Wm. Josiah Erikson
Assistant Director of IT, Infrastructure Group
System Administrator, School of CS
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 559-6091

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