Hi, can someone help me? How can I limit the maximum number of CPUs that a partition can use.
Thank You. 2018-01-02 18:28 GMT+01:00 Nicolò Parmiggiani <nicolo.parmiggi...@gmail.com> : > I have only one server and two data analysis pipelines, one for standard > jobs and other one for high priority job that can be triggered sometimes. > > My first solution was to split the CPU of the server in two partition, one > for each pipeline. > > A more complex (but i suppose better) solution could be to use one > partition and manage the priority of the two pipeline and when i get jobs > from high priority pipeline those jobs must start immediately, temporarily > blocking standard jobs. > > What solution do you recommend? And how can I implement it? > > Thank You. > > 2018-01-02 13:33 GMT+01:00 Ole Holm Nielsen <ole.h.niel...@fysik.dtu.dk>: > >> On 01/02/2018 12:59 PM, Nicolò Parmiggiani wrote: >> >>> My problem is that i have for instance 100 CPU, and i want to create two >>> partition each with 50 CPU maximum usage. In this way i can submit job to >>> both partitions independently. >>> >> >> I wonder what you really want to achieve? Why do you want to divide your >> 100 CPUs (nodes or CPU cores?) into 2 partitions? The queue will be much >> more flexible if identical nodes constitute 1 partition. >> >> If you really insist on splitting up your nodes into 2 partitions, you >> can configure that in slurm.conf, for example with 100 nodes named >> a001..a100: >> >> PartitionName=partition1 Nodes=a[001-050] >> PartitionName=partition2 Nodes=a[051-100] >> >> If you wish, you can look at my Slurm Wiki pages for inspiration: >> https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/SLURM >> https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_configuration >> >> 2018-01-02 11:29 GMT+01:00 Nicolò Parmiggiani < >>> nicolo.parmiggi...@gmail.com <mailto:nicolo.parmiggi...@gmail.com>>: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> how can i limit the number of CPU that a partition can use? >>> >>> For instance when a partition reach its maximum CPUs number you can >>> submit new job but they are put in queue. >>> >> >> /Ole >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "slurm-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >> pic/slurm-users/lLpRTC1rvKA/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> slurm-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >
