Hi,
I don't know about the other VOs but I know for sure that LHCB is not
requiring any CPU time in their jdl.
cheers
alessandra
Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Duncan Rand said:
>> Is a job with no time requirements a long job or a short job?
>
> Effectively it's a very short job :)
>
>> Also in my experience users don't pay much attention to jobs
>> which fail
>> - they just get automatically resubmitted elsewhere until they
>> eventually run to completion, often after having travelled around
>> several sites. There seems to be little incentive to improve the job
>> success rates for users, VO's or sites.
>
> Well, specifying the cpu time for a job is pretty general for any batch
> system. I think "serious" users do figure these things out, certainly
> the production jobs for the big VOs are quite sophisticated, but for new
> users it may be a problem - not least because as usual you probably
> don't get an error message that makes sense. I'll add some comments on
> the gridpp web site at least, and also try to feed this into other
> documentation.
>
> Stephen
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