[Beowulf] Question about fair share

[Tom Harvill]

Thank you Mr. Edmon,

The link you provided is comprehensive and well-written. However, I 
don't see the scheduler configured half-life time length.  Do you know 
what it is?  And what is your clusters' maximum job runtime?

On 1/24/22 1:47 PM, Paul Edmon via Beowulf wrote:
> Here is our fairshare policy doc: 
> https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/fairshare/  We use the classic 
> fairshare here.
>
> -Paul Edmon-
>
> On 1/24/2022 2:17 PM, Tom Harvill wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We use a 'fair share' feature of our scheduler (SLURM) and have our 
>> decay half-life (the time needed for priority penalty to halve) set 
>> to 30 days.  Our maximum job runtime is 7 days.  I'm wondering what 
>> others use, please let me know if you can spare a minute.  Thank you!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Tom Harvill
>>
>> Holland Computing Center
>>
>> University of Nebraska
>>
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