Hi all, Wondering whether someone could help me with the following:
I am new and struggling a bit with some slurm concepts. We are running an old version: 17.02.11 soon upgrading to 18.X On our slurm.conf "SelectType=select/cons_res" https://slurm.schedmd.com/cpu_management.html#Step1 21x compute nodes * 32 cores = 672 partition=standard User was submitting a job and requesting 168CPUs. Basically the job was getting allocated 6x nodes [5*32 + 1*8]. Which means that 5 nodes fully committed to this single job. If he submitted 4x jobs, one would go pending because each job "required" 6x nodes. Would it be possible to achieve, instead: 21x nodes providing 8x cores each, i.e., same total 168 and therefore still able to run the 4th job and maxing out the resources? Would it mean specifying -minnodes=21? Or it does not make any sense what I am saying? Thanks in advance Ricardo Rothamsted Research is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England at Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ under the registration number 2393175 and a not for profit charity number 802038.
