Summary PHYSGI Meeting 5/2/94

                                                         B. Gibbard


    Next meeting will be Monday, May 9, 11:30 - 12:00, in the Orange Room.



    Experiments which announced that they would be doing production processing
    during the week of May 2 are:

        1)  E891 (Saulys et al.) - ~2 CPU intensive Monte Carlo job.

        2)  E850 (Gushue et al.) - ~4 CPU intensive analysis jobs.

        All experiments which anticipate running more than an single occasional
        production job during a given week are required to attend the
        scheduling meeting. If that is not possible they should notify Bruce
        Gibbard (gibbard@bnl.gov) and Tom Throwe (throwe@rsgi02.rhic.gov)
        of their needs by Email prior to the Monday 11:30 meeting.


    Plan for week beginning 5/2/94:

        The rules will be the same as for last week:

        A production job is defined as any job which will accrue an hour or
        more of CPU time.
        
        Each experiment is still allowed to run up to 6 concurrent "production"
        jobs but all except 1 of those six must be run "niced" to "1".


    Other issues:

        No recurrence of the strange behavior of "un-niced" jobs getting
        smaller shares of CPU than "niced" jobs were reported for last week.

        Scattered incidents of poor interactive response were observed during
        the week.  Since there did not seem to be very many active jobs at the
        time, it was conjectured that there might have been a network problems.

        Users of PHYSGI01 are strongly encourage to set a mail forward from
        their working account on PHYSGI01 to an account on a machine where
        they frequently check their mail so that they can be easily contacted.