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%T Supercomputing Resource Management \- Experience with the SGI Cray Origin 2000
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%A Jeremy M. R. Martin, R. C. F. McLatchie, K. M. Measures
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%E Barry M. Cook
%B Proceedings of WoTUG\-22: Architectures, Languages and Techniques for Concurrent Systems
%X The Oxford Supercomputing Centre OSC was established in
April 1998 to provide high\-performance computing services
to a consortium of Oxford University research groups. The
main computer resource, an 84\-processor SGI Cray Origin
2000 known as Oscar, is being deployed in a wide variety of
research studies covering biological, medical, chemical,
mathematical, physical and engineering topics (including
parallel computing itself).
In this paper we shall
describe the queueing and accounting mechanisms we have
developed to facilitate effective use of this powerful
resource. We shall also describe innovative work in progress
to optimise the performance of this machine, using
simulation and genetic algorithms.