Hmm interesting for your use. How do you automatically power them down/up? Fact of the matter is we almost always need our nodes : our HPC is a full capacity 99% of the time.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Loris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
