Greetings -- >From the Accounting and Resource Limits documentation, there is both the suggestion to make use of both 'Job Accounting' and 'Job Completion' data. There is also the following statement, in the Slurm JobComp Configuration:
If you are running with the accounting storage plugin, use of the job > completion plugin is probably redundant. > The elastiSearch documentation similarly suggests that there may not be much difference between 'accounting' and 'completion' data, it's more a question of the use of the data after the fact. For 'accounting', typically managed through slurmdbd, there are sacct and sstat commands to query the data. For 'completion', there are more options for storing, sharing and exploiting the data (e.g. elastisearch + kibana). I would like to clarify: -- what data is available via 'job accounting' and 'job completion'? -- is the above (sketchy) summary consistent with the understanding of experienced practitioners? -- if relevant, which of the slurm documentation perhaps shed more light on distinguishing between the 'accounting' and 'completion' data, and the respective uses? Thanks, -- E.M. Dragowsky, Ph.D. Research Computing -- UTech Case Western Reserve University
