HEPiX Spring 2015 Workshop

DrainBoss: A Drain Rate Controller for ARC/HTCondor

27 Mar 2015, 12:20

25m

Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road (Physics Department, Oxford University)

Computing & Batch Services Computing and Batch Systems

Speaker

Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)

Description

This talk describes DrainBoss, which is a proportional integral (PI) controller with conditional logic that strives to maintain the correct ratio between single-core and multi-core jobs in an ARC/HTCondor cluster. DrainBoss can be used instead of the HTCondor DEFRAG Daemon.

Presentation materials

Slides

drainBoss.pdf

drainBoss.pdf

drainBoss.pptx