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Kyriakos G. Ginis wrote: >On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:12:59PM +0100, Ron Trompert wrote: > > >>Hi Piotr, >> >>Would it be an idea to include a simple MPI job in your test suite >>especially for sites claiming to be able to run MPI jobs. Such a job >>should be able to run on something like 4 CPUs to catch badly-configured >>sites having dual-CPU nodes. >> >> > >However beware that on small sites filled with lots of lhcb, atlas etc >jobs it could take quite some time for 4 CPUs to become free and >available for such a job... > > > > You can define virtual processors available only for dteam jobs. It ensures that even if the queues are full, short monitoring jobs can go through and you do not lose real computing power reserving such virtual processors. Of course you have to modify your information provider in order not to publish this processors as free resources... Gergo