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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