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- Automatic job preemption/suspend/resume?
- Support for multiple-levels of job preemption (e.g. 3-queue hierarchy)?
- Job environment propagation (including limits like "stacksize")?
- Subgroup-specific priority calculation (queue-specific priority formula)?
- Capability to delegate subgroup administration privileges (adjust job priorities, suspend, resume, kill) to subgroup administrators?
- Cross-queue fairshare (with cpu-speed weighting)?
- CPU advanced reservations for MPI?
- GPU support?
- Ability to submit jobs to hosts where we don't have accounts/home-directories?
- Avoid bad behavior when MPI head node reboots: slave node processes get "forgotten" ?
- How well does the system scale?
- Number of cores, queues, queued and running jobs?
User Group 2
- Please list supported operating systems (for submission hosts and for execution hosts)
- Explicit, site-specific-naming resource specification (e.g., rhel5-64, amount of /scratch space, etc.) at job submission time?
- Is there an API for "time remaining" query (to save state near end of job)?
- Do submission / management hosts a license?
- ability to submit/monitor jobs from any machine at SLAC (not just those with licenses as is the case with LSF)
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