With Slurm you can oversubscribe the CPUs to some level, gang scheduling if you wish. See http://www.schedmd.com/slurmdocs/gang_scheduling.html http://www.schedmd.com/slurmdocs/slurm.conf.html (see "Shared" option)
Quoting David Bigagli <[email protected]>: > Hi, I am not sure what you mean "smart" way but in openlava/lsf for example > you can configure the MXJ parameter which controls the number of slots on > a host to be numCores+N, or you can set the dynamic scheduling thresholds > such that they may overcommit the host resources. > > > /David > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Valentin Reis <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I have a question regarding the --overcommit option. >> Are there currently schedulers that use this option in a "smart" way? >> For instance, a backfilling policy with certain rules on choosing >> whether to overcommit or not? >> Maybe in maui? moab? in LSF? >> >> Thank you for your time, >> Valentin Reis >> >
