Hi,
Were trying not to use fairshare in this situation. Basically we just
want to decrease a group's job's priority so that the other groups are
favored until the resources of the queue are balanced out between all
the active groups. Also, I was under the impression that fairshare is
calculated across the whole grid so I'm not sure it would work out for
us. If one group was using their queue of the resources they owned and
then tried to use the other queue of resources that are shared across
the 4 groups, fairshare would be calculated across all the queue's
correct?
-Steve
On Apr 23, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Greenseid, Joseph M (IS) wrote:
have you looked at setting fairshare targets for each group for this
queue?
--Joe
From: [email protected] on behalf of Steve Young
Sent: Thu 4/22/2010 3:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Mauiusers] adjust priorities based on group usage
Hi,
I'm trying to devise a solution with maui 3.3 in order to
support a
requirement to balance out resources by groups over a class (queue).
We have a few different queue's bound to certain sets of resources.
Our newest cluster (288 cores) is shared between 4 different groups.
I'm trying to figure out how to have priority figured out so that this
new cluster would give a higher priority to the groups that are using
it the least. So for example, two groups are using the cluster... each
group should be allowed to utilize 50% of the resources of this queue.
As soon, as a third or fourth group starts using the resources they
would end up being highest priority until the percentages balanced out
to 33% or 25% (3 or 4 groups). My first thought is to try something
like UPROCWEIGHT and set it to a negative number (-1) so that a
person's priority should go down if they are using lots of processors
already. However, this would seem to be a user based approach and
wouldn't help in keeping the balance between groups. Perhaps, if there
were a GPROCWEIGHT that would be what I am looking for.
Also, as I mentioned before we have one central queue system
with
many queue's of different resources. In the previous paragraph I
explained how we want to balance one of the clusters (queue) between 4
groups. However, I don't want to come up with this scenario and have
it apply to the whole grid. There are other queue's (clusters) that
belong to only one group so I would only want that group to be able to
utilize all of those resources without having it effect the balancing
of the queue with the shared resources (of 4 groups).
At any rate I hope I make some sense here ;-)... I'm looking
for any
suggestions on how I can accomplish something like this or how other
places have implemented this. Thanks in advance for any advise!
-Steve
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