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When submitting jobs with sbatch, you could specify a list of partitions to use, and slurm will send the jobs to the partition with the earliest start/highest priority first, and if that gets "full" then it will send the remaining jobs to the next partition
in the list. You are talking about accounts, not partitions, but you also said you wanted to use just 1 account. If you used 1 account and had the partitions determine priority (instead of the account), then that could work.</div>
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To be honest, I've never tried to do this...but I do know that's how it's SUPPOSED to work.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 3, 2023 5:37 AM<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#212121">Just wanted to give another go at this question.</span><span style="color:#212121"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#212121">If no one has input, is there somewhere I can submit feature requests?</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#212121"> I didn’t see a way to do that on the schedmd website.</span><span style="color:#212121"></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 6:49 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Automatically converting jobs to regular priority when high-priority is exhausted</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m a SLURM user (not administrator) so I may not use the correct terms, but hopefully I can get my question across.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ultimate question:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Is there a way to have SLURM automatically convert job submissions from a “high-priority” account to regular priority when that account’s submissions
have been maxed out? If not, is there a way to request such a feature?</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">More background</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: Essentially, my lab as two accounts that we can use on our campus cluster. One is given higher priority in the queue because we directly funded
a certain number of compute nodes, while the other has regular priority. Once we exhaust the number of job units allotted to our high-priority account, any new jobs submitted from that account get straight-up rejected from the scheduler. We don’t want to have
to track how many units we’ve used from a certain account and then switch to a different account. We’d like to always be able to submit under a single account and let SLURM first use our allotted high-priority units, but once those are used up, simply set
the rest of the jobs as regular priority (and not reject them).</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We use Nextflow to manage our job submissions, so in the middle of a large and complicated run, all of our jobs start getting rejected. Going through our scripts, etc. and changing accounts is a waste of
time and error prone. It’s gotten to the point where we’re only submitting jobs under our regular account so we don’t have to deal with our jobs getting rejected, which defeats the purpose of buying into the high-priority to begin with.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks for your help.</span></p>
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