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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I would like to setup a queing system for multiple users with limited resources. I’ll have only 1 node and 48 cpus to work with. So I am using select/cons_res for select type.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Have to use preemption because there are many jobs running with 3 different partitions with different priorities. The gang,suspend preemption works fine however it limits my suspended jobs to a few cause the average job
memory consumption is pretty high. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I read about BCLR and DMTCP checkpointing and got the impression that it has a huge overhead and maybe not quite ready yet.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The jobs we run here has application level checkpointing (like abaqus,ansys etc. ) I am wondering would there be way to incorporate application level checkpoint/restart features to slurms preemption features using bash
scripts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Namely : <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">A low priority job would be checkpointed, canceled and requeued.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">After resources are available it would be restarted and let run<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">After completion all resulting files are merged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Supose these bash scripts are there (I know how to do it).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The question is how to incorporate it in the slurm scheduling mechanism.
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