MeSU supercomputer resources are managed by PBS job scheduler.

Users must submit their jobs on one of the computing system (beta or gamma) according to their needs.
This page describes the jobs categories and the limits enforced on each system in order maximize resource occupation and minimize wait times. These limits can change dynamically according to MeSU load and the number of users or jobs waiting for computing resources. When a user has jobs pending with “QOSJobLimit” reason, that means it has reached the limit of the corresponding job category.

Users do not have to declare their jobs category explicitly, it is derived from their resources needs (ncpus, walltime, etc.).

Overall, remember that resources are managed in a fair-share fashion, meaning that users that compute the most have a lower priority as long as other users with lower historic usage of the machine have jobs pending.

Beta jobs categories and limits

When submitting a job on the Beta system, use preferably a number of CPUs that is a multiple of 24 which corresponds to the number of CPUs available on each node.

CategoryNCPUs rangeWalltime limitRunning limitNotes
Thin[1..23]48 hours-shared node placement
Normal[24..192]24 hours-
Large[193..864]12 hours-
Giant[865..1728]8 hours1728 CPUs per useravailable by request only
Thin Long[1..23]336 hours192 CPUs per usershared node placement
Normal Long[24..192]336 hours1152 CPUs per user
Large Long[193..864]96 hours1152 CPUs per user

Gamma jobs categories and limits

When submitting a job in the Gamma system, users should specify the number of GPUs they whish to use.
Jobs in the Gamma system all fall in the same category and have the following limits :
– between 1 and 12 CPUs,
– between 1 and 2 GPUs,
– wall time limit of 48 hours.