I have a question about the terminology for "groups" and "qos". It seems likes "groups" are supposed to refer to OS values (/etc/group) based on reading of the slurm.conf attributes. However, there is an example online (PDF named Basic_Configuration_Usage. by R. Schultz) discussing preemption when "AllowGroups" on a partition is actually referring to a qos that is defined (see pg 31 in the PDF). On our HPC we are defining a set qos definitions for our "stakeholders" where we use GrpCPUs and were planning to use AllowQOS on the parititon.
So, are groups those that are only found in /etc/group? Does "GrpCPUs" imply that we need to put people into os groups and use AllowGroups Should the example have read AllowQOS or are they interchangeable in this. TIA Deborah Crocker, PhD Systems Engineer III Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama Box 870346 Tuscaloosa, AL 36587 Office 205-348-3758 | Fax 205-348-9393 deborah.croc...@ua.edu
