If you specify no cores or threads for a given job, you should end up with 1
task per node, and 1 cpu per task (see the sections for ntasks,
ntasks-per-node, and cpus-per-task at [1] and [2]).
And yes, if you have one or more 10-core systems, and submit 8 1-core jobs,
they’ll default to running
Hi Michael,
Thanks for quick response what if we submit multiple job with out
specifying core or thread in the same, all jobs will run parallely depends
on the cpu available in the node, when no resouce available the job will go
to queue as pending job. if i have 10 cpu in the system, if i submit
For the first question: you should be able to define each node’s core count,
hyperthreading, or other details in slurm.conf. That would allow Slurm to
schedule (well-behaved) tasks to each node without anything getting overloaded.
For the second question about jobs that aren’t well-behaved (a jo
