Hi Kamil,
Kamil Wilczek kmwil@mimuw.edu.pl writes:
Dear All,
I have a question regarding the fair-share factor of the multifactor priority algorithm. My current understanding is that the fair-share makes sure that different *accounts* have a fair share of the computational power.
But what if my organisation structure is flat and I have only one account where all my user reside. Is fair-share algorithm working in this situation -- does it take into account users (associations) from this single account, and tries to assing a fair-factor to each user? Or each user from this account have the same fair-factor at each iteration?
And what if I have, say 3 accounts, but I do not wan't to calculate fair-share between accounts, but between all associations from all 3 accounts? In other words, is there a fair-share factor for users/associations instead of accounts?
Kind regards
We have a similar situation. We do in fact have an account for each research group and the groups are associated with institutes and departments, but we use FairShare=parent so that all users are given the same number of shares and thus treated equally by the fair-share mechanism.
Cheers,
Loris