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<font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">>your job will be only runnable on nodes that offer at least 200 GB main
memory (sum of memory on all sockets/cpu of >the node)</font> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">But according to the manual</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
<dt><b>--mem</b>=<<i>size[units]</i>></dt><dd>
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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">so, with <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
#SBATCH --mem=10GB<br>
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#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=5 <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">the total requested memory should be 40GB and not 200GB.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Regards,<br>Mahmood</font><br><br><br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:19 AM Mahmood Naderan <<a href="mailto:mahmood.nt@gmail.com">mahmood.nt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">No, this indicates the amount of residual/real memory as reqeusted per node. Your job will be only runnable on nodes >that offer at least 200 GB main
memory (sum of memory on all sockets/cpu of the node). Please also have a closer look >at man sbatch. <br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Regarding the status of the nodes, I see</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
RealMemory=120705 AllocMem=1024 FreeMem=309 Sockets=32 Boards=1 <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The question is why freemem is so much low while allocmem is far less than realmemory?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Regards,<br>Mahmood</font><br><br><br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:12 AM Kraus, Sebastian <<a href="mailto:sebastian.kraus@tu-berlin.de" target="_blank">sebastian.kraus@tu-berlin.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Mahmood,</p>
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<p>>> will it reserve (looks for) 200GB of memory for the job? Or this is the hard limit of the memory required by job?<br>
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