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Proposed change to partitions page to reflect freecycle partition #52

Closed hgputnam closed 3 years ago

hgputnam commented 3 years ago

The freecycle partition

The freecycle partition is made up of lab owned nodes whose free CPU cycles are generously being shared by the owners. Priority is always given to jobs submitted by the owning Lab. This means that if those nodes were to get low on resources while a freecycle job was running, new jobs submitted by the owning labs would pre-empt and cancel enough running jobs to free up resources for the Lab job. For this reason, the runtime is restricted to 24 hours on the freecycle partition.

Intended use case

You have a short job you want to run but you notice that the job queues on the common (or your lab) partition. In order to run the job faster you could submit it to the freecycle partition with the understanding that your job could be cancelled.

hgputnam commented 3 years ago

I was going to add the above to the bottom of the partitions page. I am struggling for the right verbiage (not an English major...)

hgputnam commented 3 years ago

Whoops, superseded by #54