All GridPP has indeed agreed to support non-LHC and non-HEP VOs at the nominal amount of 0.5%. Most VOs are actually quite light in that they do not require a lot of (any) extra services to be run or software to be installed outside of the grid job. Perhaps at the next UKI operations meeting (probably June 8th) we should review the use of schedulers at sites and explain how to configure Maui. If VO allocations are enforced automatically sites should be more open to sharing resources with other VOs - but perhaps this is another area for discussion. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Burke, S (Stephen) Sent: 11 May 2005 18:44 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: are people getting jobs. Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon George said: > Pity, since > our 150 CPUs are going spare most of the time. Have you considered supporting more VOs? GridPP is supposed to be committed to allowing use by "other" VOs at a nominal level (0.5%?), but of course the whole idea of the grid is that it allows the use of "spare" CPUs even by VOs with a small allocation. However, like many things my impression is that this has yet to be translated into reality ... it looks to me that you aren't even supporting gridpp VOs apart from the LHC experiments. Stephen