Ours is set up to influence priority and set limits on resources and time accordingly.
PartitionName=batch Default=YES MinNodes=1 MaxNodes=36 DefaultTime=1-00:00:00 MaxTime=30-00:00:00 … PriorityJobFactor=1 PriorityTier=1 … OverSubscribe=NO … Nodes=node[001-040] PartitionName=debug Default=NO MinNodes=1 MaxTime=00:30:00 … PriorityJobFactor=2 PriorityTier=1 … OverSubscribe=NO … Nodes=node[001-040] PartitionName=interactive Default=NO MinNodes=1 MaxNodes=4 MaxTime=02:00:00 … PriorityJobFactor=3 PriorityTier=1 … OverSubscribe=NO … Nodes=node[001-040] Not sure how to answer if they “essentially act as a single partition”, though. Resources allocated to a job in a given partition are unavailable to other jobs, regardless of what partition they’re in. -- Mike Renfro / HPC Systems Administrator, Information Technology Services 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Tech University > On Apr 20, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov <dcheb...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > Hello > > I'm trying to understand how slurm manages resource when multiple partitions > are assigned to the same set of nodes, and all partitions have > OverSubscribe=NO set. > > https://slurm.schedmd.com/cons_res_share.html > > If I understand it correctly multiple partitions essentially act as a single > partition in this case? > > Thank you, > -- > Dmitri Chebotarov. > George Mason University, > 4400 University Drive, > Fairfax, VA, 22030 > GPG Public key# 5E19F14D: [https://goo.gl/SlE8tj] > >
