> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Burke
>
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Gordon said:
> > Stephen, we are looking at VO metrics. A sysadmin would really be
> > abusing their rights if they submitted lots of ATLAS (other VOs are
> > available) jobs just to big up their site.
>
> But what is your metric supposed to be measuring? I'm not a sysadmin, so
> is it OK if I submit the jobs? I suspect that something which is trivial
> to cheat on is not a good metric even if no-one is cheating.
>
Anything that accounts for 'work done' at all, whether that's
the current/old APEL method or any new Panda based system is
going to be cheatable by anyone prepared to submit jobs that
do real but pointless work.
It should be moderately easy to detect that sort of thing though
since the records would show the history of the jobs and who
submitted them, so I wouldn't have thought this would be a problem
in practice.
Ewan
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