On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:02:36AM +0530, Sudarshan Wadkar wrote:
> All I want to is fill each node completely with jobs before going to
> the next node. 
> Right now when users submit 10 jobs with 4procs per
> node, they are scattered around 10 nodes. I want to pack them to 5
> nodes so the rest 5 nodes can handle 8procs per node jobs.
> Current node allocation policy is CPULOAD.

CPULOAD will place jobs on into the least-loaded node.  The documentation
says how to do what you want:

http://www.adaptivecomputing.com/resources/docs/maui/5.2nodeallocation.php#PRIORITY

Example 3: Pack tasks onto loaded nodes first.
NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY PRIORITY
NODECFG[DEFAULT] PRIORITYF=JOBCOUNT

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Gabe Turner                                             [email protected]
HPC Systems Administrator,
University of Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute                          http://www.msi.umn.edu
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