Blue Waters Resource Management and Job Scheduling Best Practices

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2016-11-14

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https://hdl.handle.net/2022/21080

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This paper describes resource management and job scheduling best practices learned from operating Blue Waters (a petascale Cray XE+XK supercomputer with 26,864 compute nodes) since April 2013. We will describe various aspects of such operation while focusing on the challenges experienced while maintaining a large, shared computational resource such as Blue Waters.

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Job scheduling, torque, moab, scheduler best practices

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