processing

attempt to backfill on dedicated nodes before using shared nodes
   (if sharing is supported by job/partition)

  overlapping partitions

functions extern for use by the backfill scheduler.

  features, etc.) against node bitmap and use in for wiki2/will_run 
  function and sched/backfill
Modify sched/backfill to execute only once every 10 seconds to 
  reduce overhead

replace strcmp() with numeric compare (much faster).

    plugins. It now supports select/cons_res and all job options (required
    nodes, excluded nodes, contiguous, etc.).

Made configure use mysql_config to find location of mysql database install. Removed bluegene specific information from the general database tables.

    with step_layout=NULL and gid=SLURM_BATCH_SCRIPT and spank_fini() will
    be called immediately afterwards.

  select/linear

    task/affinity.