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Computational jobs on the AI cluster are managed with a SLURM job manager. We provide an in-depth tutorial on how to use SLURM <placeholder>, but some basic examples that are immediately applicable on the AI cluster will be discussed in this section.
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Try to run a few jobs using different number of cores and see how it scales almost linearly.
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The more resources you request from SLURM, the harder it will be for SLURM to allocate space for your job. For parallel jobs, the more CPUs, the faster it runs, but the job may be stuck in the queue for longer. Be aware of this trade-off, there is no universal answer on what’s the best strategy, it usually depends on what kind of resources your particular job needs and how busy is the cluster at the moment. |
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