On 16/02/17 09:45, Lachlan Musicman wrote: [partitions down in slurm.conf] > What's the reasoning behind this? So that you can test the cluster still > works with debug before jobs start getting submitted and failing?
Yeah, pretty much! It's a continuation from when running Torque+Moab/Maui here and at VPAC before that - we would always start Moab paused so we could check out what impact any changes had to our queues & priorities before starting jobs running. Measure twice, cut once. cheers! Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci
