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- | # K4.1-B Introduction to job scheduling | + | # K4.1-B Introduction to Job Scheduling |
# Background | # Background | ||
- | This skill provides an overview | + | This skill provides an overview |
It covers generic and widely used concepts that serve the purpose to maximize the efficiency of a supercomputer. | It covers generic and widely used concepts that serve the purpose to maximize the efficiency of a supercomputer. | ||
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+ | Batch jobs submitted to a job queue define the workloads in batch systems. | ||
+ | A workload manager of a cluster system typically deals with: | ||
+ | * Job Control to provide a user interface for submitting jobs to job queues, monitoring their state during processing (e.g. to check their estimated starting time), and intervening in their execution (e.g. to abort them manually) | ||
+ | * Scheduling and Resource Management to select a waiting job for execution and to allocate nodes to the job meeting all its other demands for computing resources (memory, special processing elements like GPUs, etc.) | ||
+ | * Accounting to record historical data about how many computing resources (e.g. computing time) have been consumed by a job | ||
# Aim | # Aim | ||
- | To enable practitioners to comprehend and describe the basic architecture and concepts of resource allocation for an HPC system | + | To enable practitioners to comprehend and describe the basic architecture and concepts of resource allocation for an HPC system. |
# Outcomes | # Outcomes | ||
- | * comprehend | + | * Comprehend |
- | * differentiate | + | * Differentiate |
- | * comprehend | + | * Comprehend |
- | * explain | + | * Explain |
- | * comprehend | + | * Comprehend |
- | * explain | + | * Explain |
- | * comprehend | + | * Comprehend |
# Subskills | # Subskills | ||
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