Partition == Queue

SLURM allows the definition of different partitions. Think of these as job queues.

Our cluster has 4 different partitions:

• standard
  • The default queue. Contains the 25 standard compute nodes (128GB RAM, at least 16 cores). No time limit.
• gpu
  • Contains the GPU machine only (256GB, 16 cores). No time limit.
• bigmem
  • Contains the big memory machines only (512GB or 768GB, 32 cores). No time limit.
• short
  • Contains all nodes, including gpu and bigmem, but has a 2 hour time limit, and jobs in this queue have a lower priority than jobs in the other queues.

Standard, gpu, and bigmem have no time limit.

(There is actually a long partition defined, but it is no different from the standard partition.)