Which Slurm mechanism balances usage between teams over time?
Why C is the answer
Fairshare
Fairshare lowers the priority of heavy recent users.
In detail
- Fairshare lowers the priority of heavy recent users.
- It looks at recent use.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
One team used a lot of GPUs last week, so fairshare lowers its priority for now.
See it in different ways
flowchart TD A["sbatch: submit"] --> B["squeue: see queue"] B --> C["sinfo: see nodes"] C --> D["scontrol: change state"] D --> E["sacct: see history"]
mindmap
root((Sharing))
Run:ai
Project quotas
Over quota, then preempted
Slurm
Fairshare
MIG
GPU instances
Hardware isolationflowchart TD
Q{"Was recent use heavy?"}
Q -->|"Yes"| A0["Lower priority"]
Q -->|"No"| A1["Higher priority"]Key point: Fairshare balances usage.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. NVUE
- NVUE configures switches.
- B. Multus
- Multus adds pod networks.
- D. Xid
- Xid is a GPU error.