On 26/07/16 06:48, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > I think that my initial question was too complex/detailed. Let me ask a > more open-ended one. Do folks have any strategies they'd like to share > on partition setups that favor paying customers while also allowing for > usage of spare resources by non-paying users? Thanks!
Not yet, but it's something I'm trying to grapple with at the moment. For now the dedicated nodes are, well, dedicated to those people. However, when they're back from their travels I want to talk about having an overlapping partition across all nodes for short running jobs. That partition will have a lower priority and so should only keep their nodes busy when they're not using them. The upper time bound on that partition will necessarily be the longest that they are willing to wait for a job to start (and could possibly be changed on the fly). If we can arrange that then we can arrange for all jobs to be submitted to all partitions (Slurm will prune any forbidden ones for us) and so (hopefully) everyone will win. cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci
