[slurm-users] Maui equivalent Nodeallocationpolicy

[Lyn Gerner]

David, take a look at the various instances of the string "LLN" throughout
slurm.conf, as well as pack_serial_at_end. (I suspect you may want LLN=no
on your partition definition.)

Best,
Lyn

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:51 AM David Chaffin <david.j.chaffin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> replying to myself as I can't quite figure out how to reply to Jurgen in
> digest.
>
> Jurgen's pointers are good for some of our other issues, but I misstated
> the question, it should have been how do I send the small HTC job to the
> node that has currently the smallest free cores?
>
> RTFM and I think this is working
> SelectTypeParameters=CR_Core,CR_Pack_Nodes,CR_CORE_DEFAULT_DIST_BLOCK
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 2:44 PM David Chaffin <david.j.chaffin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we get a lot of small sub-node jobs that we want to pack together.  Maui
>> does this pretty well with the smallest node that will hold the job,
>> NODEALLOCATIONPOLICY MINRESOURCE
>> I can't figure out the slurm equivalent.  Default backfill isn't working
>> well. Anyone know of one?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>>
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