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Slurm has partitions to allocate jobs. In altamira, a group of nodes with same features are assigned to a partition. This following table resumes the main partitions and the principal properties of each of them. By default, compute is configured if --patition option is not defined in the job. Set it to res if you are coming from a RES project or use the testing partition for test jobs before submitting to the production partition (compute). Test jobs in the testing queue has a limit of 8 cpus and 3 hours of time as you can see below at qos.
| Partition | Description |
|---|---|
| compute | Main partition in Altamira |
| res | Group of nodes for RES users |
| testing | This partition can be used to test new workflows and also to help new users to familiarise themselves with the SLURM batch system. Both serial and parallel code can be tested on the testing partition. |
QoS
Specify the Quality of Service (Qos) for each job submitted to slurm. Jobs request a QOS using the "--qos=" option to the sbatch, salloc, and srun commands. By default,
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