Requirements of the Cornell theory center for resource management and process scheduling

Abstract

The Cornell Theory Center serves a large and heterogeneous community of users. We have recently installed an IBM POWERParallel™ SP2™ that is similarly large and functionally heterogeneous. We expect that as machine utilization increases, stresses will occur in our scheduling environment that will tax our ability to maintain an efficient mapping between processes and processors. The system and workload of the Theory Center will be outlined. We also discuss our current scheduling system and our future requirements for a robust and efficient resource management/ process scheduling system.