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    Curtis,<br>
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    I think you are about right about the percentages.<br>
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    I think that everything we are running right now are things we have
    discussed and decided on, so in that sense they make sense. The
    concerning thing is our apparent low utilization of the exclusive
    nodes.<br>
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    We have more data now; the days of completing a launch over all of
    the data in a weekend may be behind us, especially since there will
    always be other competing projects going on. The competition is
    starting now because, hey, we have more data.<br>
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      -- Mark<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/08/2016 04:17 PM, Curtis A. Meyer
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      Hi Mark,
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      <div class="">  yes, it would be useful to have this in words. But
        my interpretation</div>
      <div class="">is that halld is currently using about 54% of the
        farm. about 30% goes to</div>
      <div class="">the gxproj accounts, and 24% is going to other
        hall-d processes.</div>
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      <div class="">  My understanding in discussions in early February
        was that this was</div>
      <div class="">about the time that halld would take over the farm,
        so it looks like we </div>
      <div class="">were right.</div>
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      <div class="">   That said, we should try and determine what we
        are running on the </div>
      <div class="">farm right now, and see if some of it does not make
        sense. We should</div>
      <div class="">probably try to prioritize what we are doing.</div>
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            <div class="">On Mar 8, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Mark Ito <<a
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              <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""> The latest
                on the farm from Sandy Philpott, FYI.<br class="">
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                        <td class="">high Hall D farm utilization; need
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                  <pre class="">Hi Mark,

Following on the discussion this morning of the production gxproj accounts, here's the current usage
for them individually, and for Hall D overall:
 
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FairShare Information
Depth: 7 intervals   Interval Length: 1:00:00:00   Decay Rate: 0.70

FSInterval        %     Target       0       1       2       3       4       5       6
FSWeight       ------- -------  1.0000  0.7000  0.4900  0.3430  0.2401  0.1681  0.1176
TotalUsage      100.00 ------- 91050.9 155705.8 163137.0 151037.6 127158.9 165079.1 182521.6

gxproj5          12.27   5.00+   18.33   12.12   10.29   23.87 ------- ------- -------
gxproj4*          2.09   5.00+    5.33    0.62    0.38    1.14    4.69    0.77    2.52
gxproj3           7.95   5.00+    2.35    7.24    9.58    6.80   34.40    2.34    1.75
gxproj1           7.26   5.00+    6.76    9.88    8.06    4.46    3.63    7.25    5.01
 
hallb*            0.24  10.00     0.33    0.12    0.05    0.14    0.10    1.24    0.30
theory            0.79   5.00     1.11    0.52    0.45    0.36    2.74    0.56    0.62
hallc             6.82  10.00     6.34    5.29    2.66   10.59    4.14   12.45   19.58
clas*            29.47  40.00    33.77   32.08   23.66   26.63   21.91   45.37   16.60
halld*           53.97  30.00    47.01   54.23   66.67   52.07   56.21   34.95   60.92
halla*            4.34  10.00     4.66    5.10    2.41    4.01    7.05    5.38    1.98
accelerator       4.37   5.00     6.77    2.66    4.11    6.21    7.85    0.05 -------
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So while gxproj4 is under its target (the serial jobs, yes?), gxproj5 and all of halld is well over. 

Note that the fairshare settings are still set the same as the past several years:
  A 10%, B 50%, C 10%, D 30%
and there are also lots of pending jobs by Accelerator and Theory guests.

This leads to the next important point -- with Hall D so much over its fairshare, and with
the resources configured heavily in Hall D's favor with the exclusive and multicore nodes,
and with the inefficiency of the many-core jobs, SciComp needs to make some adjustments to make
more resources available to the other halls and their serial jobs.

In that light, I'll be reconfiguring many nodes back to non-exclusive and away from the exclusive
and 12 core multicore queues. This will help use the farm and particularly farm14 nodes more efficiently.

I've copied Chip and Graham, so they're aware.  Please check with Physics if adjustments should be made
to the 10/50/10/30 fairshare config.  In the meantime, I'll reconfigure nodes to get back a bit closer
to this agreement; the other halls have noticed their long queue wait times. (Oldest farm jobs were
submitted Feb. 17).

Note that HPC has been paying back its debt to the farm over the last month, so all halls are
getting to take advantage of the farm's increased size. We can continue to run with this loan
payback for the near future.

Regards,
Sandy
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