[Swift-user] About packing jobs on a supercomputer

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 10:25 -0500, Lorenzo Pesce wrote:

> 2) When I log in and check the cluster status, usually there is some
> backfill space available (my calculations comprise many many small
> calculations in addition to larger ones). Do you have any crafty ways
> to find out what type of jobs will run immediately as backfill and
> which one will have to wait? (BTW, this would make our boss happy too
> because we will increase utilization at no real cost).

If you give it enough slots, coasters should submit jobs (blocks) of
varied sizes. That might do the trick. If you know specifics about the
backfill holes, let us know and we can probably figure out some better
settings.