[auton-users] Important Request for Your Compute Job Timelines

[Michael J. Baysek]

*Auton Users:  Attention: Important Survey Request*

This request is for active users only.  If you are an inactive
user with no upcoming plans, please do not fill out the survey.

If you are active and do have plans or currently running compute
jobs, please complete this survey in the next few days.  It will
only take a few minutes of your valuable time.

I need to schedule a maintenance window which will require a full
system reboot including the file server and all compute nodes.

Your help in completing this survey will be used to schedule a
window during the coming weeks that has a minimal impact to
everyone.

*SURVEY*

*For all users:*

1) Do you plan to run any multi-day jobs any time soon?

2) How long do you expect these jobs to run?  Be as specific
    about this as you can.

3) What is your deadline associated with this work?

4) What is the latest date that you would be able to start your
    currently planned compute jobs?

*For people running jobs currently:*

5) Which machines are you running jobs on right now?

6) Try to estimate how long you expect these jobs to complete.
    Be as specific about this as you can.

7) Are any or all of your jobs interruptable (and able to be
    resumed) at some checkpoint of your job?  Explain if you can.

8) Please share anything else that you feel is pertinent.

The idea here is that I need to determine when the earliest time
that the current jobs can be completed or interrupted sensibly,
and determine the latest time that currently planned multi-day
jobs can be started.  I am not really concerned about jobs that
run for only a few hours since even if I need to interrupt them
forcibly, they can be easily re-ran quickly without too much
inconvenience.

Thanks for your help,

Mike


-- 
Michael J. Baysek
Systems Analyst
Carnegie Mellon University / Auton Lab
412-268-8939 - mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu
http://www.autonlab.org






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