On Saturday, 24 March 2018 3:42:38 PM AEDT Mahmood Naderan wrote: > What do you mean by user and account?
User = a user who has been created in Unix and then added to slurmdbd (the second part is essential) Account = A Slurm entity that can be thought of as a project or bank account (the term used in the documentation). > Assume I have created a user > account (bob) with useradd command. I wan to set some limits for him. You also need to add the user to slurmdbd too! > The GrpTRES format is not clear for me. I assume that mem=200 is a > global 200MB of memory limit for all running jobs of bob. Therefore, > if bob is a running job with --mem=100MB, he will not be able to run a > second job with --mem=300MB. Is that right? That is my understanding. I've never used GrpTRES for a user, only on accounts. > I don't understand the 1500 value for cpu though. Is that the number of > cores?! Yes, that's - they can use no more than 1,500 CPU cores across the whole cluster. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
