Changes between Version 22 and Version 23 of Documentation/FAQ

Timestamp:

Dec 23, 2005, 7:27:34 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Surya Satyavolu

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Documentation/FAQ

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 http://www.orbit-lab.org/ and click on Schedule. 
 You will need your orbit username and password.
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+When should I reserve a slot and how is slot approval done?
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+If a user has an unapproved slot that will begin in 10 minutes, (s)he will receive an email stating
+the slot has been approved, the calendar will be updated to reflect this, and will be granted access to the requested resource.
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+You should continue to try to plan your experiment slots at least 24hrs in advance to ensure availabilty, and we will continue to approve them.
+In the event 2 users request the same slot, thereby causing a conflict, we will manually choose (based on a lottery system) who wins the slot.
+Conflicting slots will not be auto approved. This new addition of automatic slot approvals is mainly for unscheduled and unused slots that people can take advantage of at the last minute.
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+If at 4am you decide you want to run an experiment and there happens to
+be no one on the grid, you can go ahead and request the unused 4am slot,
+which will become approved shortly.  There is no guarantee that someone
+else is not thinking the same thing, thereby causing a conflict, which
+the scheduler will disregard.