Reservation of one node on Fridays

Reservation of one node on Fridays

2023-01-29

Node reservation #

Start End Queue Nodes Total cores User
Friday at 17:00 Friday at 20:00 normal 1 idle node 40 student

Details #

One idle node (40 cores) will be reserved for exclusive use of student user for practical lessons on Fridays from 17:00 to 20:00 from February 3 to May 26, 2023.

The user student can add extra option --reservation=students to Slurm commands in order to run tasks on a reserved node during reservation hours:

sbatch --reservation=students ...

Additional information #

Several additional restrictions apply to jobs submitted by user student.

The total number of cores available for user student is restricted to 128. Any job requesting more than 128 cores will be rejected. Several jobs may run in parallel as long as their total usage of cores does not exceed 128 cores.

The total number of used nodes is restricted to 4. Any job requesting more than 4 nodes will be rejected. Several jobs may run in parallel as long as they use no more than 4 nodes simultaneously.

The maximum time limit for jobs submitted by user student is 4 hours.

The restrictions from this section do not apply to jobs submitted with reservation students.