Danny: a last question. I had tried but still cannot figure how to do it.
The GrpWall works as expected, however if for example I would like to query
the current value of GrpWall used? How can I do that? sacct +? or directly
in the mysql table?

Thanks,
Daniel

2011/5/12 Danny Auble <[email protected]>

> Hey Daniel,
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Two Questions:
> > 1. I would like to ask you if it is possible to create the next kind of
> > configuration:
> >
> > PARTITION-1 priority=90
> > PARTITION-2 priority=50
> > PARTITION-3 priority=10
> >
> > What I want to get here is that PARTITION-1 can preempt any of
> PARTITION-2
> > or PARTITION-3. But PARTITION-2 must not be able to preempt partition-3.
> >
> > Any clues on how to get this setup, previously I tried to use something
> > like:
> >
> > PARTITION-3 PreemptMode=suspend
> >
> > But that of course causes that PARTITION-3 can be preempted by any of the
> > other two partitions.
>
> I don't think you can do this with the partition priority, but this kind of
> thing will work with QOS.  You might give that a try.  It will give you a
> bunch more flexibility as well.
>
> >
> > 2. Is there any sacctmgr way to limit the total consumed wall-time? Some
> new
> > users will be added to our cluster, but we want to add these new accounts
> > with a limit on total wall-time usage, then when the user/group reach the
> > limit we want to prevent it from executing more jobs. Is it possible to
> do
> > this with slurm?
>
> GrpWall.  If you use that on a user association the group will just be that
> one user, so all their jobs will aggregate together.  If you use it on an
> account all the user accounts inside that account and all its subaccounts
> will be aggregated.
>
> You have to use the priority/multifactor plugin to make it work.  see man
> sacctmgr
>
> Danny
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Daniel
> >
>
>

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