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Priority Score: Early Access Beta

Jobs on Rescale run in the order they are submitted, with no way to say that one is more urgent or to stop a single team crowding out everyone else. Priority Score is an early beta for ordering the queue on more than arrival time.

Release Highlights​

What is it?​

Priority Score ranks pending jobs using three factors your account team tunes with you:

  • Job age: jobs that have waited longer move up.
  • Job size: weight toward smaller jobs, toward larger ones, or leave it neutral.
  • Fairness: users or groups who have used less compute recently move up relative to heavy recent users.

Every pending job shows its score and which factors produced it.

Why does it matter?​

Submission order treats every job as equally urgent, which is rarely true. It also has no memory: a team that submitted a hundred jobs this morning sits ahead of a team that submitted one, regardless of what either has already consumed.

The part worth noting is the visibility rather than the ordering. "Why is my job pending" has had no answer beyond the status itself, so the score and its factors are shown on each pending job — the queue position becomes something you can read rather than infer.

How is it used?​

Your Rescale account representative configures and tunes the three factors with you. The score then appears on pending jobs automatically.

Getting Started​

This is an early, hands-on beta and there is no self-serve toggle yet. Contact your account representative to take part, or to tell us what you would want from it.

See the job queuing documentation for how the queue behaves today.