Translations:META-Farm/209/en

The run-time you choose should be significantly larger than the average run-time of an individual case, ideally by a factor of 100 or more. It must definitely be larger than the longest run-time you expect for an individual case. On the other hand it should not be too large; say, no more than 3 days. The longer a job's run-time is, the longer it will usually wait to be scheduled. On Alliance general-purpose clusters, a good choice would be 12h or 24h due to scheduling policies. Once you have settled on a run-time, divide the total number of CPU-hours by the run-time you have chosen (in hours) to get the required number of meta-jobs. Round up this number to the next integer.