Undergraduate Research at Jefferson Lab

Analysis of a Scientific Computing System

Student: Margaret Mize

School: Miami University

Mentored By: Amber Boehnlein

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has a scientific computing system known as the "farm" that processes computing jobs. A closer look at job submissions revealed that there was a significant discrepancy between the memory requested and the memory used on that computing system. This resulted in underutilization of the computing system. A Python script containing Structured Query Language (SQL) was written to display the details of these jobs so a solution could be found.