Hi,
We run SLURM with cgroups for memory containment of jobs. When users
request
resources on our cluster many times they will specify the number of
(MPI) tasks and
memory per task. The reality of much of the software that runs is that
most of the
memory is used by MPI rank 0 and much less on slave processes. This is
wasteful
and sometimes causes bad outcomes (OOMs and worse) during job runs.
AFAIK SLURM is not able to allow users to request a different amount of
memory
for different processes in their MPI pool. We used to run Maui/Torque
and I'm fairly
certain that feature is not present in that scheduler either.
Does anyone know if any scheduler allows the user to request different
amounts of
memory per process? We know we can move to whole-node assignment to remedy
this problem but there is resistance to that...
Thank you!
Tom
Tom Harvill
Holland Computing Center
hcc.unl.edu
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