[Beowulf] scheduler policy design

[Chris Samuel]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Mark Hahn wrote:

> hell no.  only a few users even have a guess about how long their
> job will run, let alone what it will actually do (in mem or IO usage).

Our users are roughly split into 3 groups, those who have a reasonable idea of 
how long their job will run, those who haven't enough experience to guess (or 
to know that they can't) and those who run jobs whose runtime is extremely 
dependant on the data and can't be predicted beforehand.

But then some of our users haven't had to use the command line before.

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