[slurm-users] Re: Suggestions for Partition/QoS configuration

2024-04-04 Thread thomas.hartmann--- via slurm-users
Hi, I'm currently testing an approach similar to the example by Loris. Why consider preemption? Because, in the original example, if the cluster is saturated by long running jobs (like 2 weeks), there should be the possibility to run short jobs right away. Best, Thomas -- slurm-users mailing

[slurm-users] Re: Suggestions for Partition/QoS configuration

2024-04-04 Thread Gerhard Strangar via slurm-users
thomas.hartmann--- via slurm-users wrote: > My idea was to basically have three partitions: > > 1. PartitionName=short MaxTime=04:00:00 State=UP Nodes=node[01-99] > PriorityTier=100 > 2. PartitionName=long_safe MaxTime=14-00:00:00 State=UP Nodes=node[01-50] > PriorityTier=100 > 3. PartitionNam

[slurm-users] Re: Suggestions for Partition/QoS configuration

2024-04-04 Thread Jerome Verleyen via slurm-users
Le 04/04/2024 à 03:33, Loris Bennett via slurm-users a écrit : I have never really understood the approach of having different partitions for different lengths of job, but it seems to be quite widespread, so I assume there are valid use cases. However, for our around 450 users, of which about 20

[slurm-users] Re: Suggestions for Partition/QoS configuration

2024-04-04 Thread Loris Bennett via slurm-users
Hi Thomas, "thomas.hartmann--- via slurm-users" writes: > Hi, > we're testing possible slurm configurations on a test system right now. > Eventually, it is going to serve ~1000 users. > > We're going to have some users who are going to run lots of short jobs > (a couple of minutes to ~4h) and s