Re: [HTCondor-users] Combining Accounting groups and Priority factors

[sjones <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2018-04-24 20:24, Greg Thain wrote:
> The best way to think about this is that the group quotas "go first",
> and divide up one condor pool, usually as a result of some kind of
> ownership -- e.g. group a has purchased one third of the node, and
> group b has purchased the rest. After this subdivision, if groups
> have more than one user with jobs, HTCondor will still schedule jobs
> from those users in a "fair share" manner, with the decaying user
> priority.

Thanks. This explains a lot. My problem is that I have two large 
departments (actually "experiments") that have, between them, are 
entitled to 70% and 20% of our cluster each. And I have many small 
experiments that collectively own 10%. Until now (not understanding 
this) each experiment (large or small) has been given its own group. I 
can now see that I can put all the small experiments in one group and 
give it a 10% group quota,  things should be "fair". And I can use 
priority factors to slice the 10% up more granularly if I need to. So 
thanks for your answer. I'll see if it works ...

Cheers,

Ste