resources-allocation-policy.md

Resources Allocation Policy

Resources Allocation Policy

The resources are allocated to the job in a fairshare fashion, subject to constraints set by the queue and resources available to the Project. The Fairshare at Anselm ensures that individual users may consume approximately equal amount of resources per week. Detailed information in the Job scheduling section. The resources are accessible via several queues for queueing the jobs. The queues provide prioritized and exclusive access to the computational resources. Following table provides the queue partitioning overview:

!!! Note "Note" Check the queue status at https://extranet.it4i.cz/rsweb/salomon/

queue	active project	project resources	nodes	min ncpus	priority	authorization	walltime
qexe Express queue	no	none required	32 nodes, max 8 per user	24	150	no	1 / 1h
qprod Production queue	yes	> 0	1006 nodes, max 86 per job	24	0	no	24 / 48h
qlong Long queue	yes	> 0	256 nodes, max 40 per job, only non-accelerated nodes allowed	24	0	no	72 / 144h
qmpp Massive parallel queue	yes	> 0	1006 nodes	24	0	yes	2 / 4h
qfat UV2000 queue	yes	> 0	1 (uv1)	8	0	yes	24 / 48h
qfree Free resource queue	yes	none required	752 nodes, max 86 per job	24	-1024	no	12 / 12h
qviz Visualization queue	yes	none required	2 (with NVIDIA Quadro K5000)	4	150	no	1 / 8h

!!! Note "Note" The qfree queue is not free of charge. Normal accounting applies. However, it allows for utilization of free resources, once a Project exhausted all its allocated computational resources. This does not apply for Directors Discreation's projects (DD projects) by default. Usage of qfree after exhaustion of DD projects computational resources is allowed after request for this queue.

• qexp, the Express queue: This queue is dedicated for testing and running very small jobs. It is not required to specify a project to enter the qexp. There are 2 nodes always reserved for this queue (w/o accelerator), maximum 8 nodes are available via the qexp for a particular user. The nodes may be allocated on per core basis. No special authorization is required to use it. The maximum runtime in qexp is 1 hour.
• qprod, the Production queue: This queue is intended for normal production runs. It is required that active project with nonzero remaining resources is specified to enter the qprod. All nodes may be accessed via the qprod queue, however only 86 per job. Full nodes, 24 cores per node are allocated. The queue runs with medium priority and no special authorization is required to use it. The maximum runtime in qprod is 48 hours.
• qlong, the Long queue: This queue is intended for long production runs. It is required that active project with nonzero remaining resources is specified to enter the qlong. Only 336 nodes without acceleration may be accessed via the qlong queue. Full nodes, 24 cores per node are allocated. The queue runs with medium priority and no special authorization is required to use it. The maximum runtime in qlong is 144 hours (three times of the standard qprod time - 3 * 48 h)
• qmpp, the massively parallel queue. This queue is intended for massively parallel runs. It is required that active project with nonzero remaining resources is specified to enter the qmpp. All nodes may be accessed via the qmpp queue. Full nodes, 24 cores per node are allocated. The queue runs with medium priority and no special authorization is required to use it. The maximum runtime in qmpp is 4 hours. An PI needs explicitly ask support for authorization to enter the queue for all users associated to her/his Project.
• qfat, the UV2000 queue. This queue is dedicated to access the fat SGI UV2000 SMP machine. The machine (uv1) has 112 Intel IvyBridge cores at 3.3GHz and 3.25TB RAM. An PI needs explicitly ask support for authorization to enter the queue for all users associated to her/his Project.
• qfree, the Free resource queue: The queue qfree is intended for utilization of free resources, after a Project exhausted all its allocated computational resources (Does not apply to DD projects by default. DD projects have to request for persmission on qfree after exhaustion of computational resources.). It is required that active project is specified to enter the queue, however no remaining resources are required. Consumed resources will be accounted to the Project. Only 178 nodes without accelerator may be accessed from this queue. Full nodes, 24 cores per node are allocated. The queue runs with very low priority and no special authorization is required to use it. The maximum runtime in qfree is 12 hours.
• qviz, the Visualization queue: Intended for pre-/post-processing using OpenGL accelerated graphics. Currently when accessing the node, each user gets 4 cores of a CPU allocated, thus approximately 73 GB of RAM and 1/7 of the GPU capacity (default "chunk"). If more GPU power or RAM is required, it is recommended to allocate more chunks (with 4 cores each) up to one whole node per user, so that all 28 cores, 512 GB RAM and whole GPU is exclusive. This is currently also the maximum allowed allocation per one user. One hour of work is allocated by default, the user may ask for 2 hours maximum.

!!! Note "Note" To access node with Xeon Phi co-processor user needs to specify that in job submission select statement.

Notes

The job wall clock time defaults to half the maximum time, see table above. Longer wall time limits can be  set manually, see examples.

Jobs that exceed the reserved wall clock time (Req'd Time) get killed automatically. Wall clock time limit can be changed for queuing jobs (state Q) using the qalter command, however can not be changed for a running job (state R).

Salomon users may check current queue configuration at https://extranet.it4i.cz/rsweb/salomon/queues.

Queue status

!!! Note "Note" Check the status of jobs, queues and compute nodes at https://extranet.it4i.cz/rsweb/salomon/

Display the queue status on Salomon:

$ qstat -q

The PBS allocation overview may be obtained also using the rspbs command.

$ rspbs
Usage: rspbs [options]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --get-server-details  Print server
  --get-queues          Print queues
  --get-queues-details  Print queues details
  --get-reservations    Print reservations
  --get-reservations-details
                        Print reservations details
  --get-nodes           Print nodes of PBS complex
  --get-nodeset         Print nodeset of PBS complex
  --get-nodes-details   Print nodes details
  --get-jobs            Print jobs
  --get-jobs-details    Print jobs details
  --get-jobs-check-params
                        Print jobid, job state, session_id, user, nodes
  --get-users           Print users of jobs
  --get-allocated-nodes
                        Print allocated nodes of jobs
  --get-allocated-nodeset
                        Print allocated nodeset of jobs
  --get-node-users      Print node users
  --get-node-jobs       Print node jobs
  --get-node-ncpus      Print number of ncpus per node
  --get-node-allocated-ncpus
                        Print number of allocated ncpus per node
  --get-node-qlist      Print node qlist
  --get-node-ibswitch   Print node ibswitch
  --get-user-nodes      Print user nodes
  --get-user-nodeset    Print user nodeset
  --get-user-jobs       Print user jobs
  --get-user-jobc       Print number of jobs per user
  --get-user-nodec      Print number of allocated nodes per user
  --get-user-ncpus      Print number of allocated ncpus per user
  --get-qlist-nodes     Print qlist nodes
  --get-qlist-nodeset   Print qlist nodeset
  --get-ibswitch-nodes  Print ibswitch nodes
  --get-ibswitch-nodeset
                        Print ibswitch nodeset
  --summary             Print summary
  --get-node-ncpu-chart
                        Obsolete. Print chart of allocated ncpus per node
  --server=SERVER       Use given PBS server
  --state=STATE         Only for given job state
  --jobid=JOBID         Only for given job ID
  --user=USER           Only for given user
  --node=NODE           Only for given node
  --nodestate=NODESTATE
                        Only for given node state (affects only --get-node*
                        --get-qlist-* --get-ibswitch-* actions)
  --incl-finished       Include finished jobs

Resources Accounting Policy

The Core-Hour

The resources that are currently subject to accounting are the core-hours. The core-hours are accounted on the wall clock basis. The accounting runs whenever the computational cores are allocated or blocked via the PBS Pro workload manager (the qsub command), regardless of whether the cores are actually used for any calculation. 1 core-hour is defined as 1 processor core allocated for 1 hour of wall clock time. Allocating a full node (24 cores) for 1 hour accounts to 24 core-hours. See example in the Job submission and execution section.

Check consumed resources

!!! Note "Note" The it4ifree command is a part of it4i.portal.clients package, located here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/it4i.portal.clients

User may check at any time, how many core-hours have been consumed by himself/herself and his/her projects. The command is available on clusters' login nodes.

$ it4ifree
Password:
     PID    Total   Used   ...by me Free
   -------- ------- ------ -------- -------
   OPEN-0-0 1500000 400644   225265 1099356
   DD-13-1    10000   2606     2606    7394