[CSC 435] Another Tip

[Andrew J. Pounds]

If your jobs doesn't need 8 hours to run, then don't specify that.  
Torque is trying to use it's fair-share scheduling policies and right 
now it sees a ton of jobs that all need the same amount of time to run - 
so it's just lining them up and running them one at a time.

Also, it's poor etiquette to run many identical benchmarks over the same 
number of processors in the same script.  Some of you tied the cluster 
up for hours yesterday running the same command repeatedly in one script.

Also -- the MAXIMUM number of nodes you should be using is 20.  I killed 
jobs that were using more or attempting to use more.

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