Fair shares for bureau users

✍ Scribed by R. Gilbraith

• Book ID: 103898755
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 396 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(78)90033-2

✦ Synopsis

The problem of allocating the resources of a Data Centre fairly between independent users is one faced by many organizations, but the literature is rot rich in documented solutions. In this article the writer describes in non-technical terms the way one Company !QA solved this problem in a batch, demand-processing environment by enhancing the jobentry subsystem to create and controI a number of "logical computers".

The number of these assigned to each user is r%xlcuIated each month using work forecasts and a simple agreed formula; each user then has a basis for planning his work schedules which cannot be greatly affected by the activities of other users and which cannot be arbitrarily changed by the Data Centre.

The implen.+.-tarion is based on as IBM 158 using VS2 Release 1 and W, but the principles are of general applicability.