> Hi Jim, > >> A cluster of client workstations, using the clients idle cycles, works >> great until your thesis / CFO's budget / experimental results get >> destroyed by an errant batch process. > > Can you please clarify this??? > > It's clear that I would not submit my "latex" or "emacs" or "xmgrace" > job to the queue. Do you mean that those non-batched jobs could be > killed by batched jobs? The perfect reason to run Condor standard universe jobs and checkpointing. If one node coughs, it sends the job to another node. -- Jeremy Mann jeremy@biochem.uthscsa.edu