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From: toby@hobbes.nas.nasa.gov (Toby E. Harness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: What's a super?
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Date: 5 Jun 90 01:16:23 GMT
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In article <102750@convex.convex.com> Ed Hamrick writes:
>I'm sure that many of you are familiar with large Cray sites with hundreds
>of users with an average job turn-around time (for 1-hour jobs) of a week.
> ....
>Of course, for any broad generalization there exist specific counterexamples.
>However, I challenge those readers of this newsgroup from the National
>Supercomputer Centers et. al. (e.g. NASA Ames NAS) to post computer
>utilization statistics such as median job turnaround time (by job run
>time), number of jobs (by job run time) and other similar data.  I've
>noticed that many of you seem to have plenty of spare time (still waiting
>for your jobs to run? ;-).

the following command was run on the NAS YMP-8/128 (reynolds); the data
is for the previous 7 days.   this may or may not have been a typical
"week".  only jobs that spent longer than 1 second waiting in a queue
are counted.

% qavg 1w
QUEUE               N        MEAN      MEDIAN         MAX
q4M_1h            164    02:23:09    01:32:41    10:14:48
q4M_4h             71    03:15:50    02:25:13    15:00:46
q10M_20m         1277    00:06:25    00:00:02    08:57:30
q10M_1h           154    01:17:21    00:03:53    08:56:10
q10M_4h            67    05:48:45    01:31:22    32:49:49
q16M_20m           73    00:22:01    00:00:02    08:21:52
q16M_1h            60    02:01:43    00:30:02    13:16:17
q16M_4h            50    05:40:59    04:20:14    17:08:15
q32M_20m           15    06:20:27    03:44:31    24:00:26
q32M_1h            23    09:37:34    11:35:17    15:53:11
q32M_4h            11    09:14:52    09:12:48    32:17:20
q64M_20m            5    04:06:29    04:51:00    07:58:34
q64M_1h             7    06:22:25    06:58:02    16:40:20
q64M_4h             7    11:47:17    12:30:39    22:00:28

[the leading 'q' means it's a production NQS queue (i've removed the others)
the first number is the memory size, in megawords
the second is the time limit
the times are in hour:minute:second format]

toby harness
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