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Introduction

The Nancy Grid'5000 site also hosts nodes for production use. Those nodes are:

  • Clapper.png Clément → décrire précisément le matériel

The usage rules differ from the rest of Grid'5000:

  • Advance reservations (oarsub -r) are not allowed (to avoid fragmentation). Only submissions (and reservations that start immediately) are allowed.
  • All Grid'5000 users can use those nodes, but it is expected that users outside of LORIA / Inria Nancy -- Grand Est will use their own local production resources in priority, and mostly use those resources for tasks that require Grid'5000 features. Examples of local production clusters are Tompouce (Saclay), Igrida (Rennes), Plafrim (Bordeaux), etc.

Getting started

Getting an account

Please use the request form here.

  • The following fields must be filled as indicated (but the other fields must be filled too):
    • manager: lnussbaum
    • site: nancy
    • groups, roles: none
    • privileges: user
  • You are automatically subscribed to the Grid'5000 users' mailing lists: users@lists.grid5000.fr

This list is the user-to-user or user-to-admin communication mean to address help/support requests for Grid'5000.

Learning to use Grid'5000

Please read the Getting Started tutorial.

Using production resources

Support / contact information

FAQ

I submitted a job, there are free resources, but my job doesn't start as expected!

Most likely, this is because of our configuration of resources restriction per walltime. In order to make sure that someone requesting only a few nodes, for a small amount of time will be able to get soon enough, the nodes are split into categories:

  • 20% of the nodes only accept jobs with walltime lower than 1h
  • 20% -- 2h
  • 20% -- 24h
  • 20% -- 48h
  • 20% accept all jobs (no limit on duration)

Note that best-effort jobs are excluded from those limitations.

Another OAR setting could impact the scheduling of your jobs. The OAR karma feature is enabled: this feature assigns a dynamic priority to submissions based on the history of submissions by a specific user. With that feature, the jobs from users that rarely submit jobs will be generally scheduled earlier than jobs from heavy users.

I have an important demo, can I reserve all resources in advance?

There's a special challenge queue that can be used to combine resources from the classic Grid'5000 clusters and the production clusters for special events. If you would like to use it, please get in touch with the clusters managers.