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The age factor represents the length of time a job has been sitting in the queue and eligible to run. In general, the longer a job waits in the queue, the larger its age factor grows. However, the age factor for a dependent job will not change while it waits for the job it depends on to complete. Also, the age factor will not change when scheduling is withheld for a job whose node or time limits exceed the cluster's scheduler’s current limits.
Job Size Factor
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On Agave, researchers that contribute nodes to the cluster supercomputer will be provided an exclusive QOS to access those nodes. These exclusive QOS's have very large QOS factors, as to ensure that hardware contributors have top priority onto their own equipment. All other QOS factors are set to zero.
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