I think the strange restrictions arose from their having difficulty getting funding to upgrade the 
cluster, so they might be very interested in such a merger!

On 28/02/11 16:38, Jan Staunton wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Just did a bit of digging, found this:
>
> http://www.york.ac.uk/res/yccsa/intranet/computing.html#cluster
>
> Looks as if YCCSA use SGE as well, meaning a merging of the two resources would be trivial.  They have 96 cores with low memory, and a 16-core machine with tonnes of memory.
>
> They have a bunch of strange restrictions on jobs, such as memory limits etc so they are prolly better versed in SGE config than we are :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Jan