[slurm-users] Fairshare within a single Account (Project)

Tomislav Maric maric at mma.tu-darmstadt.de
Thu Feb 3 08:32:47 UTC 2022


Thanks a lot, this clarifies it!

Dr.-Ing. Tomislav Maric
Mathematical Modeling and Analysis
TU Darmstadt
Tel: +49 6151 16-21469
Alarich-Weiss-Straße 10
64287 Darmstadt
Office: L2|06 410

On 2/1/22 20:47, Renfro, Michael wrote:
>
> At least from our experience, the default user share within an account 
> is 1, so they'd all stay at the same share within that account. Except 
> for the one faculty who wanted a much higher share than the students 
> within their account, I've never had to modify shares for any users 
> otherwise. So adding and removing users has been a non-issue.
>
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> Thanks for the help!
>
> Is it possible to use FairTree  
> (https://slurm.schedmd.com/fair_tree.html 
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> to ensure that all users always have equal fairshare. On this account, 
> we have users coming and going relatively often and having fairshare 
> automatically adjusted would simplify the administration.
>
> Dr.-Ing. Tomislav Maric
> Mathematical Modeling and Analysis
> TU Darmstadt
> Tel: +49 6151 16-21469
> Alarich-Weiss-Straße 10
> 64287 Darmstadt
> Office: L2|06 410
>
> On 1/30/22 21:14, Renfro, Michael wrote:
>
>     You can. We use:
>
>     sacctmgr show assoc where account=researchgroup format=user,share
>
>     to see current fairshare within the account, and:
>
>     sacctmgr modify user where name=someuser account=researchgroup set
>     fairshare=N
>
>     to modify a particular user's fairshare within the account.
>
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>     Tomislav Maric <maric at mma.tu-darmstadt.de>
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>     *Date: *Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 5:32 AM
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>     Hello everyone,
>
>     We are a small research group that shares an account on the
>     cluster and we thought we would be able to use usage reports to
>     balance the CPUh from different users: we were wrong.
>
>     Is it possible to set up Fairshare
>     <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslurm.schedmd.com%2Ffair_tree.html&data=04%7C01%7Crenfro%40tntech.edu%7C257b7bd173204ac8483d08d9e5baa945%7C66fecaf83dc04d2cb8b8eff0ddea46f0%7C1%7C0%7C637793412158657990%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Fadf2vKHsnEqTztN68CQWDLPKe1ZLIwhRIaSlVtId%2FQ%3D&reserved=0>
>     within a single Account (Project)? I am reading the documentation,
>     but as a non-admin, it is difficult for me to know what the
>     configuration steps for something like this would be. If someone
>     would outline the configuration steps in this case, it would save
>     me a great deal of time...
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Tomislav Maric
>
>     -- 
>
>     Dr.-Ing. Tomislav Maric
>
>     Mathematical Modeling and Analysis
>
>     TU Darmstadt
>
>     Tel: +49 6151 16-21469
>
>     Alarich-Weiss-Straße 10
>
>     64287 Darmstadt
>
>     Office: L2|06 410
>
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