[slurm-users] SLURM heterogeneous jobs, a little help needed plz

Prentice Bisbal pbisbal at pppl.gov
Fri Mar 22 18:21:01 UTC 2019


This is the first place I've had regularly scheduled maintenance, too, 
and boy does it make life easier. In most of my previous jobs, it was a 
small enough environment that it wasn't necessary.


On 3/22/19 1:57 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 3/22/19 10:31 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>
>> Most HPC centers have scheduled downtime on a regular basis.
>
> That's not my experience before now, where I've worked in Australia we 
> scheduled maintenance for when we absolutely had to do them, but there 
> could be delays to them if there were critical workloads from users.
>
> Here at NERSC we do have monthly maintenances and it makes life a lot 
> easier, especially as we are pretty much always upgrading Slurm (new 
> patches, even if there isn't a new release).
>
> All the best,
> Chris



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