Red Storm Capability Computing Queuing Policy

Red Storm will be the first Tri-Lab [Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)], U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration, Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) platform to be managed under an explicit capability computing policy directive. Instead of allocating nodes among SNL:LANL:LLNL in the 2:1:1 ratio, Red Storm will use PBS-Pro (the commercial version of the Portable Batch System), to manage priorities among the labs so that in the long run their node-hours of usage will follow the 2:1:1 ratio. The basic queuing policy design is described along with extensions to handle switching between classified and unclassified, use by ASC university partners, priority access, etc.