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| - can delay start of your job (e.g. it takes longer to coordinate 10 nodes' being free versus a single node) | - can delay start of your job (e.g. it takes longer to coordinate 10 nodes' being free versus a single node) | ||
| - may decrease your workgroup's relative job priority versus other workgroups (further delaying future jobs) | - may decrease your workgroup's relative job priority versus other workgroups (further delaying future jobs) | ||
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| + | ==== Queues and partitions ==== | ||
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| + | With other job schedulers, a //queue// is an ordered list of work to be performed. There are one or more queues and jobs are submitted to specific queue(s). Each queue has a set of hardware resources associated with it on which the queue can execute jobs. | ||
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| + | Slurm starts from the other end and uses a //partition// to represent a set of hardware resources on which jobs can execute. A single queue contains all jobs, and the partition selected for each job constrains which hardware resources can be used. | ||
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