Project Allocation

Resources on M3 are allocated by the SLURM job scheduler. Unlike M1 & M2, on M3 we use the SLURM multifactor plugin to assign priorities to jobs. This means that the scheduler sets priority based upon job age, queue, partition, job size, QoS and fair-share.

Slurm’s fair-share factor is a scoring system that reflects the shares of a computing resource that a user has been allocated and the number of computing resources the user’s jobs have consumed. The fair-share component to a job’s priority influences the order in which a user’s queued jobs are scheduled to run.

The MASSIVE team is working on a mechanism to represent this score in a more meaningful way.

Please refer to SLURM documentation for more information: https://slurm.schedmd.com/priority_multifactor.html#fairshare

Project Space

To check your quota on /projects

lfs quota -h -g "project_id" /projects

and to check your quota on /scratch

user_info

Please also visit this link for more information about our filesystems.

Questions about allocation

If you have any enquiries with regards to your project resources and space allocation, please do not hesitate to contact us on help@massive.org.au