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Commit f1a3e958 authored by Morris Jette's avatar Morris Jette
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Document topology/tree with respect to node weight

Optimizing topology takes place first, then picking lowest weight
nodes within the switches offering the best fit.
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......@@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ If a single job can not be entirely placed within a single network leaf
switch, the job will be spread across as many leaf switches as possible
in order to optimize the job's network bandwidth.</p>
<p><b>NOTE:</b>Slurm first identifies the network switches which provide the
best fit for pending jobs and then selectes the nodes with the lowest "weight"
within those switches. If optimizing resource selection by node weight is more
important than optimizing network topology then do NOT use the
topology/tree plugin.</p>
<h2>User Options</h2>
<p>For use with the topology/tree plugin, user can also specify the maximum
......@@ -179,6 +185,6 @@ The value will be set component types listed in SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR.
Each component will be identified as either "switch" or "node".
A period is used to separate each hardware component type.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 7 April 2015</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 28 September 2015</p>
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