Hello,
Thanks for replying!
My question was not as to assert whether it is indeed possible to 
overcommit resources or share them.

I am interested in the actual scheduling decisions in pre-existing 
schedulers regarding the overcommit feature.The ability to "reshape" a 
parallel job is interesting for a scheduler..

Thank you for your time,
Valentin Reis

On 02/12/2013 06:05 PM, Moe Jette wrote:
> 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
>>>

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