On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 at 1:16pm, Thomas M. Payerle wrote
So jobs of "paying" customers can cut ahead of jobs of "non-paying" and "scavenger" in the queue, and will bump "scavenger" jobs. They will have to wait for standard priority jobs that are already running, but these have stricter walltime limits (although can still run for several days). Jobs on the standard priority partition will cut ahead of scavenger jobs in the queue, and bump running scavenger jobs if needed. And those that can live with being preempted, etc. can submit scavenger jobs to use up any spare CPU cycles w/out having their allocations charged.
Thanks so much for the details. What kind of preemption are you using? -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF
