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By default, all users when they first use slurm will have access to the shared Account on the shared Partition with scavenger QoS. If you belong to a group that has contributed hardware into the SDF, you will be eligible to use different Accounts and Partitions:
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We do NOT, and WILL NOT support AFS tokens with slurm. This will cause your jobs to fail if you try to write to anywhere under /afs (including your currently home ~ directories). We shall be deploying new storage in the near future, with dedicated home and data directories. In the meantime, It is recommended to use GPFS space if your group currently has any. |
Why should I use Batch?
Whilst your desktop computer and or laptop computer has a fast processor and quick local access to data stored on its hard disk/ssd; you may want to run either very big and/or very large compute tasks that may require a lot of CPUs, GPUs, memory, or a lot of data. Our compute servers that are part of the Batch system allows your to do this. Our servers typically also have very fast access to centralised storage, have (some) common software already preinstalled, and will enable you to run these long tasks without impacting your local desktop/laptop resources.
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