Dave,

	Please kindly let the user knows that every hour we clean up compute  
node processes. If he doesn't alllocate the nodes, his testing  
processes will be killed.
	So, if he's testing for a short time, it probably doesn't matter.

Thanks,
Robin


On Jun 19, 2006, at 3:53 PM, David Woods wrote:

> One user is running a slightly unusual process on the cluster.  The  
> user is
> Mike Helmick (helmicmt) - he is running what look like parallel  
> jobs, but he
> also has a small Java process running on the head nodes.  His  
> processes on
> the compute nodes contact this process get their work units.  He is  
> doing
> this because his code is written in Java and couldn't get the mpiJava
> implementation to work on the cluster.
>
> I have told him about the 2 hour CPU time limit on the head node  
> and his
> processes shouldn't have a problem with it.
>
> Dave