Hi Donal, Thanks for the typos - embarrassing!
Major point: Is there a reason for not using the elements from the Usage Record v1.0 specification in there?
I went back and reviewed the copy of the UR spec I've been carrying about for the last month! The need is to report a node status in terms of information to drive scheduling. Here used and free memory/processors are important. I could not see a way of capturing all that information from UR. UR is also focused on the absolute resource used by a job - as opposed to a node's resources. Am I missing something here?
(As a separate point, it's not exactly clear to me what the meaning of "free memory" is; operating systems do some funny tricks there.)
True - my flip answer its what the OS tells the scheduler for it to use in making its placement decisions. It may not be correct - but at least you get consistency that way! Steven