[Neolith-users] Idle nodes - run short jobs!

[PärAndersson]

Hi,

paran at nsc.liu.se (Pär Andersson) writes:
> The planned downtime starts tomorrow at 07:00. Jobs with walltime limits
> that can't finish before are delayed until after the downtime is
> over. This can be seen on the scheduler status web page[1].
>
> Currenyly 404 out of the 805 compute nodes are idle. If you have short
> jobs then today is a great day to run them and fill up those idle nodes.
>
> Today is also good for scalability tests. How well does your job scale
> if you double the number of compute nodes? Find out today! As long as
> you specify short walltimes getting wide jobs through the queue should
> be quite easy.

The second planned downtime is on Wednesday this week. Like last time
this means that this is a good time to run short jobs to keep the
cluster fully utilized until the downtime begins.

http://www.nsc.liu.se/cgi-bin/neolithstatus

Regards,

Pär Andersson
NSC
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