cips bmkg <[email protected]> writes: > Re: [slurm-dev] Re: Fwd: SLURM : how to have a round-robin across > nodes based on load average? > > Hi, > > If you generate a lot of mono-core sequential tasks, the regular SLURM > allocation would pile them up into the first node, following with > second , etc... > > The last node would (almost) never be used.
Why is this a bad thing? When we have nodes that are empty, we power them down. When they are needed, they get powered on again. If you spread the workload evenly over all nodes, this can never happen and you waste a lot of energy. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.
