Dr. Adrian Partl is working in the E-Science group of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), where the key topics are cosmic magnetic fields and extragalactic, astrophysics is the branch of astronomy concerned with objects outside our own Milky Way galaxy
Why did you decided to create a Job Queue plugin, what issues does it solve?
A: Basically our MySQL databases hold astronomic simulations and observations content, the datasets are in multi Terra Bytes size and queries can take long time, astronomers can definitely wait for data acquisition, but jump on the data as soon as they are available.  Job Queue offer a protection from too many parallel query executions and prevent our servers to be spammed. Multiple queues are here to give us priority between users, today queries are executed as soon as a slot is available. Some timeouts per group can be define and queries will be killed passing that delay. …