A priority scheme schedules jobs based on the priority of the queue to which the job was submitted and a priority aging factor. The scheduler is being incorporated in release 3.4 of the Intel operating system. In addition, SDSC will participate in follow-on projects, such as the development and implementation of network interfaces, the provision of timesharing environments on the MIMD computers, and the development of a file archival system for parallel machines. These efforts produced encouraging results in 1991. Tests were run on a nucleotide sequence of lamprey albumin.
Performance is considerably better for the other component, which does vibrational analysis.
In conjunction with the research and development efforts on the MIMD parallel supercomputers, SDSC supported a broad range of educational activities on these machines in 1991. This will continue in 1992. In one class for undergraduates, the students compare programming environments on nCUBE and Sun machines. A graduate class compares programming environments on a variety of platforms, including the Intel machine. In BadenUs course, students implement numerical applications on the CRAY, Intel, and nCUBE to evaluate application portability.