Subject: Long jobs history # (I forgot where I'm up to)
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 17:47:37 EDT

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Subject: Notes from 8/28 Long Jobs meeting
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 15:44:25 EDT
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <[email-masked]>

Yoav has been working to prepare a Sun SPARC5 to be a dial-up type machine in
preparation for its christening as Patriot2 - e.g. closing security holes. 
He is also working on an install script to make it more manageable.  Once that
is done, all that needs to be added are the Patriot 'submit' and cleanup
functions.  It is expected that it will be ready by Sept 1 for Miki to start
doing some work on it, and at the very latest by Sept 15 for testing of the
Patriot configuration and software.  One last thing that needs to be done
before such a machine goes into production is hacking the kernel to do
logging for security purposes, but that is not needed for friendly test.

Steve will be finished benchmarking the multiprocessor SPARC20 in his
department by the end of this week.  

Naomi has gotten a quote from Dennis  ($28,002 for a 4 processor SPARC 20
with 256 Meg RAM and 4 GIG disk) and will wait until Steve has finished his
benchmarking before placing the order.  She will ask Dennis for the expected
delivery time, and if it's more than 3 weeks she will place the order ASAP.

Gerd Ceder (FELT) was suggested as a pilot tester.  Steve has ideas for a few
other Engineering subjects in our pilot.

David Lukas will be available to automate the analysis of system accounting
logging.  Suggested statistics that we gather include:

	Clock time per job
	CPU time per job
	Clock/CPU time per user
	Clock/CPU time per subject
	Peak simultaneous use as a function of time of day
	Peak simultaneous use as a function of time of semester

	Applications that are run:

	Matlab
	Adina
	othe third party applications
	none of the above (presumably compiled home-grown binaries)

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