This document proposes a broad change to NRAO’s computational approach w.r.t. CASA to improve overall efficiency. Within industry there are strategies viewed as either High Performance or High Throughput Computing, commonly referred to as either HPC or HTC. Neither approach is optimal for NRAO so what is proposed here is a High Efficiency Computing approach that considers all aspects of the problem including hardware configuration and performance, PI time, and costs for hardware and software development. Because the goal is broad efficiency across multiple disjoint axis there is no ultimate final goal that is being aimed at, rather there is a finite series of stages which achieve some delta improvement in efficiency with the next stage going through a review and prototype process before commencing.
A requirements document for HTCondor.
https://staff.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/NM/HTCondor#Conversion
Queues: We want to keep the queue functionality of Torque/Moab where, for example, hera jobs go to hera nodes, vlass jobs go to vlass nodes. We would also like to be able to have vlasstest jobs go to the vlass nodes with a higher priority without preempting running jobs.
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