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Commit ebb042ee authored by Moe Jette's avatar Moe Jette
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Add explanation of different scheduler models (explicit release or just

alter existing priorities).
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<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, SLURM, resource management,
Linux clusters, high-performance computing, Livermore Computing">
<meta name="LLNLRandR" content="UCRL-WEB-204324"
<meta name="LLNLRandRdate" content="18 February 2004">
<meta name="LLNLRandRdate" content="23 July 2004">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="description" content="Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management">
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<p> This document describes SLURM scheduler plugins and the API that defines
them. It is intended as a resource to programmers wishing to write their own SLURM
scheduler plugins. This is version 0 of the API.</p>
<p>It is noteworthy that two different models are used for job scheduling.
The <b>backfill</b> scheduler lets SLURM establish the initial job priority
and can periodically alter job priorities to change their order within the queue.
The <b>wiki</b> scheduler establishes an initial priority of zero (held) for
all jobs. These jobs only begin execution when the <b>wiki</b> scheduler
explicitly raises the their priority (releasing them).
Developers may use the model that best fits their needs.</p>
<p>SLURM scheduler plugins are SLURM plugins that implement the SLURM scheduler
API described herein. They must conform to the SLURM Plugin API with the following
specifications:</p>
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<a href="mailto:slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov">slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/"><img align=middle src="lll.gif" width="32" height="32" border="0"></a></p>
<p class="footer">UCRL-WEB-204324<br>
Last modified February 18, 2004</p></td>
Last modified July 23, 2004</p></td>
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