In order to improve availability of the SGI cluster to the majority of users, and to allow a more effective research environment with the machines, the steering commmittee has decided on a new policy for granting dedicated time. This new policy is effective immediatly. Dedicated Time Scheduling Dedicated modes will be scheduled in such a way as to cause the least perturbations to other users who can still have access to one or more nodes. That is, the cluster is available for all users. The following rules will be used when scheduling dedicated times.
Schedules are to be updated each day.
The Sat-Sun morning periods comprise one slot each. For convenience, schedules are all usually in terms of 4-hour slots. Priority will depend on slots already used in a given quarter. Principal Investigators of the NSF proposal have highest priority. Among this set, the requester with least dedicated time used during a quarter will have the highest priority.