Scheduler Concepts

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Scheduler Concepts

[tkphd]

Our afternoon meeting suggested purging fastqc for pedagogical reasons, which eliminates the difficulty of not having fastqc pre-installed. Note that it's a simple program which is easy to copy from GitHub and compile locally.

[ChristinaLK]

Agree 100%. I think the scheduler part needs a fair bit of work, see #31.

I would have changing a job's name + sending an email as callouts (not required) or extras.

[psteinb]

I added your comments into #40. Please have a look at it and comment. This should then serve as a guide on how to move forward in the coming days.

[bkmgit]

Scheduler policy vary from center to center. May just want to have a broad overview. Some facilities prioritize large jobs. Many also have a notion of fair share. It is unlikely a detailed analysis can be done. It might be better to ask participants to think about and then discuss what they think would be a suitable scheduling policy to be used at an HPC facility of importance to them. The current example also uses a program fastqc that may not be installed on every hpc facility. It may be helpful to use a script that is portable

[psteinb]

I second this! A good idea.