Available Partitions¶
The partition setup of LUMI prioritizes jobs that aim to scale out. As a consequence most nodes are reserved for jobs that use all available resources. However, some nodes are reserved for smaller allocations and debugging.
Partitions allocatable by node¶
The following partitions are available for allocation by nodes. When using these partitions, your jobs use all resources available on the node and won't share the node with other jobs. Therefore, make sure that your application can take advantage of all the resources on the node as you will be billed for the complete node regardless of the resource actually used.
| Name | Max walltime | Max jobs | Max ressources/job |
|---|---|---|---|
| standard | 2 days | 120 (100 running) | 512 nodes |
| bench | 1 day | n/a | All nodes |
The bench partition is not available by default and is reserved for
large-scale runs. Projects wishing to have access to this partition must send a
request to the support.
Partitions allocatable by resources¶
The following partitions are available for allocation by resources. This means that you can request a sub-node allocation: you can request only part of the resources (cores and memory) available on the compute node. This also means that your job may share the node with other jobs.
| Name | Max walltime | Max jobs | Max ressources/job |
|---|---|---|---|
| debug | 30 minutes | 1 (1 running) | 4 nodes |
| small | 3 days | 220 (200 running) | 4 nodes |
| largemem | 1 day | 30 (20 running) | 1 nodes |
Large Memory Nodes
Some of the large memory nodes (512GB and 1TB) are located in the small
partition. Therefore, in order to use these nodes, you need to select the
small partition (--partion=small). Then, the large memory nodes will be
allocated if you request more memory than the standard compute nodes.
The nodes in the largemem partition are part of LUMI-D, the
data analytics part of LUMI and have 4TB of memory. Another
difference is that the CPUs architecture of these nodes is Zen2.
Getting information about partitions¶
A list of the available partitions can be obtained using the sinfo command.
If you want more precise information about a particular partition, you can use
the following command:
The output of this command will give you information about the defaults and
limits which applies to the <partition-name> partition.