Re: [slurm-users] Preferential scheduling on a subset of nodes

2021-12-01 Thread Paul Edmon
If you set up a higher priority partition with Preemption OFF on the lower priority partition you should be able to accomplish this.  If you have preemption turned off for the specific partitions in question Slurm will not preempt but will schedule jobs from the higher priority partition first

[slurm-users] Preferential scheduling on a subset of nodes

2021-12-01 Thread Sean McGrath
Hi, Apologies for having to ask such a basic question. We want to be able to give some users preferential access to some nodes. They bought the nodes which are currently in a 'long' partition as their jobs need a longer walltime. When the purchasing users group is not using the nodes I would lik