[Beowulf] Avoiding/mitigating fragmentation of systems by small jobs?

[Chris Samuel]

On Sunday, 10 June 2018 1:48:18 AM AEST Skylar Thompson wrote:

> We're a Grid Engine shop, and we have the execd/shepherds place each job in
> its own cgroup with CPU and memory limits in place.

Slurm has supports cgroups as well (and we use it extensively), the idea here 
is more to try and avoid/minimise unnecessary inter-node MPI traffic.

All the best,
Chris
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