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Commit d5f080b5 authored by Moe Jette's avatar Moe Jette
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Expand explanation of slurm.conf Shared partition parameter and

its relationship to small bglblocks.
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......@@ -432,13 +432,18 @@ Nodes=bgl[001x001] Type=SMALL # 1x1x1 = 1 midplane, in four bglblocks
<p>The above <i>bluegene.conf</i> file defines multiple bglblocks to be
created in a single midplane (see the "SMALL" option).
Note that you can not presently control how many bglblocks are created
in a midplane, it will be at most four.
in a midplane, it will be four.
Using this mechanism, up to eight independent jobs can be executed
simultaneously on a one-rack Blue Gene system.
If using small midplanes or "small bglblocks", the SLURM partition containing
them as defined in <i>slurm.conf</i> must have the parameter
<i>Shared=force</i> to enable scheduling of multiple jobs on what
SLURM considers a single node.</p>
If defining bglblocks of <i>Type=SMALL</i>, the SLURM partition
containing them as defined in <i>slurm.conf</i> must have the
parameter <i>Shared=force</i> to enable scheduling of multiple
jobs on what SLURM considers a single node.
SLURM partitions that do not contain bglblocks of <i>Type=SMALL</i>
may have the parameter <i>Shared=no</i> for a slight improvement in
scheduler performance.
As in all SLURM configuration files, parameters and values
are case insensitive.</p>
<p>One more thing is required to support SLURM interactions with
the DB2 database (at least as of the time this was written).
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