Thank you for the clear answer. Grinding my teeth that I missed it on the web site though. On the plus side, your shared experience is invaluable.
Doug On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Lachlan Musicman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 October 2017 at 07:35, Doug Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Within the cluster we have partitions that are shared and some that are >> dedicated to specific groups. Is there a way to configure slurm so the >> private use partitions do not impact the priority system nor are they >> counted against the account cpu limit? >> > > Doug, > > I've asked this question too. If you read the top of this page > > https://slurm.schedmd.com/resource_limits.html > > you will see that resource limits can be set on a number of factors, and > that partitions is at the top. With the added bonus that "first QoS seen is > the applied QoS". > > Partition QoS is set in slurm.conf iirc. > > Unfortunately, my experience was that this didn't work - users in both > partitions would still have the stricter QoS applied, even in the liberal > partition. > > I asked on list but didn't get a response. ( https://groups.google.com/ > forum/#!topic/slurm-devel/5OcdfOMKH1Q ) > > We have upgraded to 17.02.4 since then, but I've not tested with the new > release. > > Cheers > L. > > > ------ > "The antidote to apocalypticism is *apocalyptic civics*. Apocalyptic > civics is the insistence that we cannot ignore the truth, nor should we > panic about it. It is a shared consciousness that our institutions have > failed and our ecosystem is collapsing, yet we are still here — and we are > creative agents who can shape our destinies. Apocalyptic civics is the > conviction that the only way out is through, and the only way through is > together. " > > *Greg Bloom* @greggish https://twitter.com/greggish/s > tatus/873177525903609857 >
