Global Resource Director (GRD): Customer Scenarios for Large Multiprocessor Environments Fritz Ferstl Genias Global Resource Director (GRD) was developed to meet the demands of large multiprocessor sites with several 100s of CPUs and users. At the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and at BMW, GRD is installed on several types of Cray and SGI machines. This paper will describe how GRD integrates such resources into one environment automatically managed by global resource utilization policies. Benefits which the sites achieved in using GRD such as avoiding over-subscription of resources, automated management and utilization monitoring will also be discussed. In addition, an overview will be provided on the ground-breaking functionality of GRD which features a ticketing system based distribution of resource shares combined with on-line control of the CPU utilization of running jobs (also known as "dynamic scheduling"). Results of CUG User Services Survey Barbara Horner-Miller This paper presents the results of a survey prior to the CUG in Stuttgart Germany held in June 1998. A request to complete the survey was mailed to 187 email addresses in early May with responses requested by the end of the month. Where possible, the survey was sent directly to the CUG User services Contact for the site. The User Services Contact listing in the CUG database is not well populated. When no contact was named or no email address provided, the email was sent in order of preference to the CUG Site Liaison, an other official liaison (operations or operating systems), to someone I knew at the site, or to a user who had attended a previous CUG and had an email address available in the database. Table of Contents | Author Index | CUG Home Page | Home (Title Page)