[Bioclusters] Clusters for bioinformatics... Some numbers

[Jeremy Mann]

> 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