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Pack Jobs: Put jobs on nodes efficiently such that as many nodes as possible are left idle and available for users with large memory and/or large core-count requirements.
- Slurm has a sched/backfill plugin that backfills jobs similar to Torque/Moab.
- Slurm has a sched/backfill plugin that backfills jobs similar to Torque/Moab.
Reaper: Clean nodes of unwanted files, dirs and procs. Condor seems to handle /tmp and /var/tmp properly because it uses fake versions of these dirs for each job. But /dev/shm is still an issue. What about errant processes?
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