Depending on the scale (what percent are Fluent users, how many nodes you have), you could use exclusive mode on either a per-partition or per-job basis.
Here, my (currently few) Fluent users do all their GUI work off the cluster, and just submit batch jobs using the generated case and data files. -- Mike Renfro / HPC Systems Administrator, Information Technology Services 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Tech University > On Sep 1, 2018, at 9:53 AM, Mahmood Naderan <mahmood...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I have found that when user A is running a fluent job (some 100% processes in > top) and user B decides to run a fluent job for his own, the console window > of fluent shows some messages that another fluent process is running and it > can not set affinity. This is not an error, but I see that the speed is > somehow low. > > Think that when a user runs "srun --x11 .... script" where script launches > some fluent processes and slurm put that job on compute-0-0, there should be > a way that another "script" from another user goes to compute-0-1 even if > compute-0-0 has free cores. > > Is there any way in slurm configuration to set such a constraint? If slurm > wants to dispatch a job, first see if process X is running there or not. > > > Regards, > Mahmood > >
