Why NetBatch? At my workplace, we have way more computing needs for the number of machines we own. Hence, it would be economically infeasible to buy enough machines to satisfy our peak consumption, which is growing constantly. NetBatch is a tool, which allows our organization to maximize utilization of the available computing resources. This paper discusses about NetBatch and NBS, a package around NetBatch that handles job management, which use principles of queuing, job scheduling, sequencing to achieve its goals.
How does it work? Each person has a computer on his or her desk that is a source of computing power. When that person isn’t using that computer to do interactive work, it sits idle. With NetBatch, however, we can take advantage of those untapped hours of computing time. At night, whenever a person is absent from work or any time when a computer is not being used to some predefined utilization, NetBatch can run jobs there. Users who are in need of computing power submit “jobs” on such machines subject to a few restrictions. NetBatch queues the jobs and runs them when they are at the front of the queue and when an appropriate machine is available. This allows us to accommodate peak loads by distributing the demand across a large number of machines at all times. Typically, different projects are on different computing cycles, so one group may be in a slump when another is peaking and NetBatch provides a good solution for the needs of the entire design community in our organization. An overview of the job submission process is provided in Appendix A. This describes the flow of a typical job from the time a user has a need to perform a computing task to the time the job completes, or crashes.
NetBatch: Structure
NetBatch terminology:
Each user picks an allocated pool of the netbatch, the class of machines to run the jobs on and a queue slot priority flag defined by qslot and submits a computing job. Pool is a set of machines that can run NetBatch jobs. Each pool consists of one master machine and a number of servers. The master machine monitors the status of all machines in the pool, such as processor load, number of interactive users, Qslot weights, and queues the jobs submitted, and schedules the jobs on the servers . Classes are a mechanism that allows users to match jobs with suitable machines.
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In today's world of technology computers have become part of everyday life. In the business environment computer systems has to be in place for the business to even think of competing in the world marketplace. With this in mind colleges and universities have to prepare their students for the dynamic technology that lies ahead of them. There are so many administrators, facility, and students using computers on university campuses today, where can they reach for help if there are technical problems? The manufacturers, and wait several days for a response? They're fellow classmates that maybe are having the same problems? In this fast paced environment there is a better solution, On campus help desk support. This paper will trace the project plan, staffing, equipment requirements, and estimated cost to establish a workable help desk support environment for State University.
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