Nate Kremer-Herman has created a new, convenient way to lookup information of
Work Queue masters. This new
visualization tool provides real-time updates on the status of each Work Queue master that contacts our catalog server. We hope that this new tool will serve to both facilitate our users' understanding of what their Work Queue masters are doing
and assist the user in determining when it may be time to take corrective action.
In part, this tool provides our users with measurements on their tasks currently running, the number of tasks waiting to be run, and the total capacity of tasks that
could be running. As an example, a user could find that they have a large number of tasks waiting, a small number of tasks running, and a task capacity that is somewhere in between. A recommendation we could make to a user who is seeing something like this would be to ask for more workers. Our hope is that users will take advantage of this new way to view and manage their work.