Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of MultiUserPriority

Timestamp:

Oct 1, 2018, 11:58:47 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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MultiUserPriority

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-= Prioritizing jobs in a multi-user project =
+= Allocation-based job prioritization =
 
-By default, BOINC processes jobs in a roughly first-in, first-out order.
-If your project has multiple job submitters,
-this is probably not what you want:
-users who submits lots of jobs would get more than their share of the project's capacity.
-BOINC has a set of mechanisms that address this issue.
-To use them, do the following:
+This document is for projects with [MultiUser multiple job submitters]
+who use quotas to allocate resources among submitters.
 
-== Set the desired quotas for job submitters ==
+If you use [RemoteJobs remote job submission], read no further;
+those mechanisms automatically prioritize jobs based on quotas.
 
-Create a user account for each job submitter,
-and [MultiUser set their quotas].
+Otherwise, you'll need to modify your job submission scripts or work generators
+to set job priorities.
 
-== Modify your job submission scripts or work generators ==
-
-Wherever you create jobs - e.g. [RemoteJobs web scripts for remote job submission]
-and [WorkGeneration work generators] - you must set the priority of the jobs
+When you create jobs, set the priority of the jobs
 as follows:
 
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- * Set job priorities.  For example, use the '''--priority''' option to '''create_work'''.
-   Also, if you're creating a batch, set batch.logical_end_time to the priority
-   (this is not used for scheduling, but is used in displaying batches on the web).
-
-== Prioritize existing jobs ==
-
-If you have a lot of jobs already queued,
-you can prioritize them (and initialize user priorities) by running
-
-{{{
-html/ops/submit_init_priority.php
-}}}
-
-This script can also be used to reset all priorities to zero.
-
-== Use the right feeder options ==
-
-Run the feeder with the '''--priority_asc''' option.
-
-Notes:
- * Currently this can't be used in combination with the --all_apps option,
-  or with homogeneous redundancy.
- * If there are any problems, remove the '''--priority_asc''' option
-  and you'll be using FIFO again.
+ * Set job priorities to this value.  For example, use the '''--priority''' option to '''create_work'''.