Re: [Beowulf] Question about fair share

2022-01-24 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 01:17:30PM -0600, Tom Harvill wrote: > > > Hello, > > We use a 'fair share' feature of our scheduler (SLURM) and have our decay > half-life (the time needed for priority penalty to halve) set to 30 days.  > Our maximum job runtime is 7 days.  I'm wondering what others use

Re: [Beowulf] Question about fair share

2022-01-24 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 1/24/22 11:17 am, Tom Harvill wrote: We use a 'fair share' feature of our scheduler (SLURM) and have our decay half-life (the time needed for priority penalty to halve) set to 30 days.  Our maximum job runtime is 7 days.  I'm wondering what others use, please let me know if you can spare a

Re: [Beowulf] Question about fair share

2022-01-24 Thread Paul Edmon via Beowulf
Our half life is 30 days and we keep 6 months of data in our database.  The maximum run time depends on partition.  We have about 100 of them.  Some with unlimited.  Our main public partition has a maximum runtime of 7 days.  See: https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/running-jobs/#Slurm_partition

Re: [Beowulf] Question about fair share

2022-01-24 Thread Tom Harvill via Beowulf
Thank you Mr. Edmon, The link you provided is comprehensive and well-written. However, I don't see the scheduler configured half-life time length.  Do you know what it is?  And what is your clusters' maximum job runtime? On 1/24/22 1:47 PM, Paul Edmon via Beowulf wrote: Here is our fairshare

Re: [Beowulf] Question about fair share

2022-01-24 Thread Paul Edmon via Beowulf
Here is our fairshare policy doc: https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/fairshare/  We use the classic fairshare here. -Paul Edmon- On 1/24/2022 2:17 PM, Tom Harvill wrote: Hello, We use a 'fair share' feature of our scheduler (SLURM) and have our decay half-life (the time needed for priorit

[Beowulf] Question about fair share

2022-01-24 Thread Tom Harvill
Hello, We use a 'fair share' feature of our scheduler (SLURM) and have our decay half-life (the time needed for priority penalty to halve) set to 30 days.  Our maximum job runtime is 7 days.  I'm wondering what others use, please let me know if you can spare a minute.  Thank you! Tom Tom