[auton-users] Lab Machine Availability

[Michael J. Baysek]

Hi Lab,

We are experiencing many deadlines this week, and subsequently, we have 
a very high reserve rate on lab machines.  Please, if you expect to need 
a lab machine, please let me know as soon as possible so I can budget to 
keep enough machines free. 

In fairness to all who might be needing resources, I'd like to ask you 
to consider running more than one job on a single machine.  In most 
cases this does not significantly impact results of timings.  If you 
suspect it will, I'd like to ask you to run a small test set to 
determine if it does.  If we can run 2 jobs on a 2 cpu machine, we won't 
have such a tight situation with reservations, and you might be able to 
get another machine when you request it.

As always, check the status page at http://www.autonlab.org/status/ to 
find an available machine, and contact me for reservation requests.  If 
there is an outage emergency or other urgent problem, please call me on 
my cell.

-- 
Michael J. Baysek, Systems Analyst
Carnegie Mellon University - Auton Lab
www.cmu.edu - www.autonlab.org

412-268-8939 Office
412-596-1618 Cell

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