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Reaper: Cancel jobs when accounts are closed.
This could be a cron job on the Central Manager that looks at all the owners of jobs and kills jobs of any user that is not active.
Node priority: With Torque/Moab we can control the order in which the scheduler picks nodes. This allows us to run jobs on the faster nodes by default.
- Slurm
- The order of the nodes in PartitionName is not important. But you can set a Weight to a NodeName. Nodes with the lowest weight will be chosen first.
- HTCondor
- There isn't a simple list like pbsnodes in Torque but there is NEGOTIATOR_PRE_JOB_RANK which can be used to weight nodes by cpu, memory, etc.
- Slurm
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