The job limits function will be available in early 2000. An extensible accounting system is extremely important to anyone who must charge or pay for computing services. The initial release of CSA is scheduled for mid-2000, with additional accounting features planned for release later that year. It allows an organization to allocate resources based on its own notions of fair distribution. Share II users, not processes, compete for machine resources.
Group dynamics keep overall system usage fair.
Individual users or groups of users can also be guaranteed a certain percentage of the available machine functionality. Share II is currently available for IRIX 6.5. Miser is a deterministic batch scheduler that generates a nonconflicting schedule of jobs with known time and space requirements. Improvements to Miser have been an SGI engineering priority, producing advances in repeatability, reliability, and performance. IRIX 6.5.4 includes many Miser improvements and improved documentation.