Reservation of one node on Fridays
2022-02-10
Node reservation #
| Start | End | Queue | Nodes | Total cores | User |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday at 17:00 | Friday at 21:00 | 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 21:00 from February 11 to May 27, 2022.
The user student can add extra option --reservation=students_friday to Slurm commands in order to run tasks on a reserved node during reservation hours:
sbatch --reservation=students_friday ...
Additional information #
Several additional restrictions apply to jobs submitted by user student.
Starting from December 3, 2021, 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.
Starting from February 10, 2022, the maximum time limit for jobs submitted by user student is decreased to 4 hours. Similarly to earlier total core restrictions, an additional restriction is set to limit the total number of used nodes. 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.
The restrictions from this section do not apply to jobs submitted with reservation students_friday.