High Memory Nodes
We have installed two high memory DELL R820 servers into the 800 series. Each server has four sockets with six cores of 2.4GHz each. There are also thirty two 32GB DIMMS making up 1TB of RAM, although these memory chips …
SLURM provides a preemption mechanism to deal with situations where cluster become overloaded. This can be configured in several ways:
FIFO:
This is the most simplistic method of queueing in which there is no preemption, jobs come in, queue and …
During 2014 we decommissioned the “HP BL20p gen3/gen4” series of blades we used for our first HPC cluster. The hardware is still in good condition and still has a good few years of computing it could deliver. We decided to …