[Clusterusers] request for CPU time

[Jaime Davila]

Greetings everyone,

I wanted to check to see if it was possible for me to grab some more CPU 
cycles out of the cluster for a week or so. I just placed a new 
algorithm on my account, and have it run it, but it's fairly different 
from what I was doing before, and I would rather detect quickly if I 
need to tweak or change things, as opposed to having to wait a week to 
realize I need to make a 10 minute change.

Last time that the system load diminished some, I noticed that my 
processes run at their top speed if the number of CPUs loaded to their 
maximum drops to about 75%, as opposed to the 97% where they are now. 
Maybe things will be that way this time around, maybe not? In either 
case, my grabbing more cpu cycles right now would be extremely useful.

Thoughts?

Thanks a lot,

Jaime

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Jaime J. Dávila
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Hampshire College
jdavila at hampshire dot edu
http://helios.hampshire.edu/jdavila
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