[slurm-users] random allocation of resources

[Benjamin Nacar]

Hi,

Is there a scheduling option such that, when there are multiple nodes 
that are equivalent in terms of available and allocated resources, Slurm 
would select randomly from among those nodes?

I've noticed that if no other jobs are running, and I submit a single 
job via srun, with no parameters to specify anything other than the 
defaults, the job *always* runs on the first node in slurm.conf. This 
seems like it would lead to some hosts getting overused and others 
getting underused. I'd like the stress on our hardware to be reasonably 
evenly distributed.

Thanks,
~~ bnacar

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Benjamin Nacar
Systems Programmer
Computer Science Department
Brown University
401.863.7621