Re: [slurm-users] Spreading jobs across servers instead of loading up individual nodes

2018-11-19 Thread Aravindh Sampathkumar
Paul, Thanks for the response, I tested and activated LLN on a per partition basis in our cluster. Works exactly as described and satisfied my need perfectly. Thanks! -- Aravindh Sampathkumar aravi...@fastmail.com On Thu, Nov 15, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Paul Edmon wrote: > I recommend the LLN op

Re: [slurm-users] Spreading jobs across servers instead of loading up individual nodes

2018-11-15 Thread Paul Edmon
I recommend the LLN option for partitions: *LLN* Schedule resources to jobs on the least loaded nodes (based upon the number of idle CPUs). This is generally only recommended for an environment with serial jobs as idle resources will tend to be highly fragmented, resulting in parallel

[slurm-users] Spreading jobs across servers instead of loading up individual nodes

2018-11-15 Thread Aravindh Sampathkumar
Hi All. I'm having some trouble finding appropriate section of the documentation to change slurm resource allocation policy. We have configured CPU and memory as consumable resources, and our nodes can run multiple jobs as long as there are CPU memory available. What I want is for Slurm to spread