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Select a Partition
In SLURM, queues are called partitions. A partition can be selected with the –partition or -p argument, to know how to do it in your job submission scripts see: job submission script options.
To query the availability of partitions end nodes on the cluster you can use the following SLURM command:
sinfo -l
In the COKA cluster at the moment are available the following partitions:
interactive
The interactive partition is meant for short and/or interactive jobs, such us debugging and compilation of programs. Jobs submitted to this partition:
- are limited to 30 minutes
- multiple jobs can share the same CPUs
- default memory per requested task is 1GB
shortrun
The shortrun partition is meant for jobs expected to complete in less than one hour. Jobs submitted to this partition:
- are limited to 60 minutes
- multiple jobs can NOT share the same CPUs
- default memory per requested task is 1GB
longrun
The longrun partition is meant for jobs expected to complete in less than eight hour. Jobs submitted to this partition:
- are limited to 480 minutes
- multiple jobs can NOT share the same CPUs
- default memory per requested task is 1GB