[slurm-dev] Re: Slurm array scheduling question

2016-09-21 Thread Christopher benjamin Coffey
Hi Janne, > AFAIU the major optimization wrt. array job scheduling is that if the > scheduler finds that it cannot schedule a job in a job array, it skips over > all the rest of the jobs in the array. If that’s true, then I think most of my worries should be nullified. That would definitely m

[slurm-dev] Re: Slurm array scheduling question

2016-09-20 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 21/09/16 14:15, Christopher benjamin Coffey wrote: > I’d like to get some feedback on this please from other sites and the > developers if possible. Thank you! The best I can offer is this from the job array documentation from Slurm: # When a job array is submitted to Slurm, only one job re

[slurm-dev] RE: Slurm array scheduling question

2016-09-20 Thread Blomqvist Janne
Hi, AFAIU the major optimization wrt. array job scheduling is that if the scheduler finds that it cannot schedule a job in a job array, it skips over all the rest of the jobs in the array. There's also some memory benefits, e.g. a pending job array is stored as a single object in the job queue,