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? Ivo