[email protected] wrote: > Any bonuses for something like turn around time should have support built > into the client so that multi project users are not penalized. You are > indeed talking about penalizing multi project users by not allowing them to > earn the bonus points for turn around time.
There's an old saying about not being able to have your cake AND to (also) eat it. Multi-project users should be able to earn their fast turn-around time bonuses if their systems are fast enough and the Boinc scheduler gives the bonus jobs priority. To my mind, that is far far more 'honest' and less wasteful with abandoned WUs than inducing EDF with a fictitiously short deadline. This is another very good reason for the scheduler to schedule the tasks according to the _credits_ gained in proportion to the set user resource shares. Hence, if the resource share was scheduled according to the credits awarded: 1: Any 'bonuses' awarded by a project (for example for a fast turn-around time) will have a mitigating 'cost' to that project of reduced CPU time in proportion to other projects on a host; 2: There will be natural "market forces" pressure upon the projects to award credit fairly to maintain a fair share of CPU time for their project; 3: Users will at last see the scheduler *successfully* balance the resource shares to give credits in proportion to the user set resource shares. Point "3" is especially important to avoid the forum questions about resource shares not being visibly "honoured" in the awarded credits. Regards, Martin -- -------------------- Martin Lomas m_boincdev ml1 co uk.ddSPAM.dd -------------------- _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
