I'm just learning about slurm. I understand that different different partitions can be prioritized separately, and can have different max time limits. I was wondering whether or not there was a way to have a finer-grained prioritization based on the time limit specified by a job, within a single partition. Or perhaps this is already happening by default? Would the backfill scheduler be best for this?
Yeah, that's sort of the job of the backfill scheduler, as smaller jobs will fit better into the gaps. There are several options with in the priority framework that you can use to dial in which jobs get which priority. I recommend reading through all those and finding the options that will work best for the policy you want to implement.
-Paul Edmon-
On 1/9/2024 10:43 AM, Kenneth Chiu wrote:
I'm just learning about slurm. I understand that different different partitions can be prioritized separately, and can have different max time limits. I was wondering whether or not there was a way to have a finer-grained prioritization based on the time limit specified by a job, within a single partition. Or perhaps this is already happening by default? Would the backfill scheduler be best for this?
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Kenneth Chiu -
Paul Edmon