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Foil 37 Features and Functionality Desired in a CMS Package

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Job Scheduling and Allocation Policy
Dispatching Policy- Is there a configurable dispatching policy,
  • - Does it allow for factors such as system load, resourcesavailable (CPU type, computational load, memory, disk-space),resources required, etc.
Impact on Workstation Owner- What is the impact on the owner of the workstation?
  • - It should be possible to configure the CMS to, for example,suspend jobs when an owner is using his/her workstation or setjobs to have a low priority (nice) value.

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