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Single slot jobs are not allowed in these queues. There is also a limit on the total number of cores in use by the bulletmpi and bulletmpi-large queues. You can see what that limit is by running the command blimits which shows that there are 3072 slots total available to those 2 queues and at the moment of the command they are all in use:
renata@victoria $ 13:41 blimits -w
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NAME USERS QUEUES HOSTS PROJECTS SLOTS MEM TMP SWP JOBS
bulletmpi_total_limit - bulletmpibulletmpi bulletmpi-large bulletfarm/ - 3072/3072 - - - -
bulletmpi_slot_limit hezaveh bulletmpi - - 288/512 - - - -
bulletmpi_slot_limit lehmann bulletmpi - - 128/512 - - - -
bulletmpi_slot_limit sforeman bulletmpi - - 256/512 - - - -
bulletmpi_slot_limit frubio bulletmpi - - 32/512 - - - -
bulletmpi_slot_limit weast bulletmpi - - 300/512 - - - -
bulletmpi_slot_limit cuoco bulletmpi - - 20/512 - - - -
bulletmpi_long_slot_limit shoeche bulletmpi-large - - 2048/2048 - - - -
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There are 2 flavors of mpi available at SLAC, the stock RedHat rpm version, and the RedHat version compiled with LSF hooks. They each use a slightly different bsub command to submit jobs.
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