Partitions have an ExclusiveUser setting. Not exclusive per job as I’d
mis-remembered, but exclusive per user.
In any case, none of my few Fluent users run graphically on the HPC. They do
their pre- and post-processing on local workstations, copying their .cas.gz and
.dat.gz files to the HPC an
Hi Michael,
Sorry for the late response. Do you mean supplying --exclusive to the
srun command? Or I have to do something else for partitions? Currently
they use
srun -n 1 -c 6 --x11 -A monthly -p CAT --mem=32GB ./fluent.sh
where fluent.sh is
#!/bin/bash
unset SLURM_GTIDS
/state/partition1/ansys
Depending on the scale (what percent are Fluent users, how many nodes you
have), you could use exclusive mode on either a per-partition or per-job basis.
Here, my (currently few) Fluent users do all their GUI work off the cluster,
and just submit batch jobs using the generated case and data file
Hi,
I have found that when user A is running a fluent job (some 100% processes
in top) and user B decides to run a fluent job for his own, the console
window of fluent shows some messages that another fluent process is running
and it can not set affinity. This is not an error, but I see that the sp