[slurm-users] Auto-select partition?

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 13:08:03 +0200, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> Our cluster is quite heterogeneous (CPU type, generation and mem per
> CPU). So I was thinking to create partitions to group homogeneous nodes,
> but does slurm automatically select a suitable partition if the user
> doesn't specify any?

A bit ugly, but what may also work is to (ab)use the topology feature to
group hosts together - topological subdomains get assigned first.

- Steffen


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