Talk:Mek-quake Queueing system

I don't know a lot about queuing systems, so I can only really talk about front-end problems. What has annoyed me about nimbus is that it is supposed to be for running parallel jobs, yet whenever I submit something (usually 2-10 but sometimes up to 20 nodes, which I have to run with 10 nodes, 2 jobs per node which is already not ideal) it can spend literally weeks in the queue while hundreds of serial jobs run. This leads me to use rama because I can get a job running sooner, however rama is not optimised for parallel work so although they start, they run very slowly and I no doubt annoy all the people wanting to run serial jobs there. Is there any way around this?

Jane