Welcome as users on the AHPCC Pinnacle HPC system! As Pinnacle is used by many concurrent researchers at any given time, it's very important to observe a few basic rules so as to ensure that everyone enjoys a favorable user experience…
ALL jobs are required to be submitted to compute nodes thru use of the SLURM Job Scheduler. Running computationally intensive tasks (or memory intensive tasks) on the Login nodes is prohibited. Such jobs will be killed by administrators.
Job queues determine which specific resources a user can request, both in terms of run time and specific hardware. AHPCC requires that users select the appropriate queue for their job submissions at all times. Jobs that are incorrectly submitted to queues that don't match the application will be killed by administrators. Submitting to alternate queues just because the appropriate queue is busy is not allowed!
Research groups who have participated in the condo purchase plan and “own” resources that are integrated into the Pinnacle system should fully utilize those systems FIRST before assigning jobs to the general purpose queues. This helps to ensure that everyone has access to adequate resources to get their research done. AHPCC administrators continuously work to balance queue parameters to best balance the needs of all researchers.