[auton-users] RE: cycle servers

[Dan Pelleg]

Just an update on the usage of cycle servers. The deadline of the project
I'm working on is not over yet, and I still need large amounts of
processing power before it is. I can imagine how hard this is on others who
need the servers, and I am grateful for everyone's cooperation on this.

I will try to keep jobs off lop1 and lop2, lira and lina, to give you a
more predicable usage pattern. You can also use other machines that are
otherwise idle. Note that I do not expect any other machines to become
available in the next 48 hours.

Please, if you run jobs, run all of them under nice(1), and if they have
already started, renice them. This will have no effect unless other jobs
are running on the same machine, in which case they will get a lower
priority.

Andrew's original message (of 10/21) follows.


> Over the next few weeks please avoid using the cycle servers for big 
> jobs. Several sponsored research projects need results in the short term 
> and we want to use the machines for those. We'll let youknow when this 
> period ends: probably mid-November. If a machine looks empty and has 
> been unused for a while then feel free to run your code provided it 
> doesn't use a whole lot of memory, but in "nice" mode.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew

--Dan