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Commit 40a95aeb authored by jette's avatar jette
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Clarify timing of burst buffer operations

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......@@ -128,7 +128,14 @@ persistent burst buffer storage (NOTE: The "#BB" prefix is used since the
command is interpreted by Slurm and not by the Cray Datawarp software).
Interactive jobs (those submitted using the <i>salloc</i> and <i>srun</i>
commands) can specify their burst buffer space requirements using the "--bb"
or "--bbf" command line options, as described later in this document.</p>
or "--bbf" command line options, as described later in this document.
All of the "#SBATCH", "#DW" and "#BB" directives should be placed at the top
of the script (before any non-comment lines).
All of the persistent burst buffer creations and deletions happen before the
job's compute portion happens.
In a similar fashion, you can't stage files in/out at various points in the
script execution. All file stage-in happens prior to the job's compute portion
and all file stage-out happens after computation.</p>
<p>A basic validation is performed on the job's burst buffer options at job
submit time.
......@@ -270,6 +277,6 @@ $ scontrol create reservation StartTime=noon duration=60 \
BurstBuffer=cray:20G
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<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 29 October 2015</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 28 November 2015</p>
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