Many thanks Paul for your reply and the suggestion. The order on which the limits are enforces is a bit challenging, if I understand your second link correctly. If there is a partition QoS limit on MaxJobs (that we do), the user association setting will not be considered. Ideally, I want something the other way around. If a user association has a limit, I would like that limit to get enforced and if it is empty, the partition level limits should be enforced.
Thanks Hossein From: Paul Edmon <[email protected]> Reply-To: slurm-dev <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 9:21 AM To: slurm-dev <[email protected]> Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: distributing fair share allocation I would probably look at qos's for this: https://slurm.schedmd.com/qos.html https://slurm.schedmd.com/resource_limits.html You can attach them to partitions as well which can be handy. You probably want to use things like MaxJobs, MaxWallDurationPerJob, MaxTRESperJob. -Paul Edmon- On 2/7/2017 10:11 AM, Hossein Pourreza wrote: Greetings, We have a cluster with SLURM 16.05.4 as its workload manager with fair share policy. From time to time, we need to create accounts for courses where students' usage gets charged against that account. I am wondering what the best approach would be to limit the number of cores and/or walltime of each job asked by each student without creating a dedicated allocation for a course. For example, an instructor may want to limit the walltime of student jobs to 2 hours and not more than 2 cores. She/he may also want to put a cap on the number of SUs that a student can use so a single student cannot burn all the course allocation. Thanks Hossein
