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Add some more detailed ideas around Slurm accounting
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JohnGarbutt authored Feb 15, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -182,6 +182,24 @@ a some amount of Coral Credits are given to
your Slurm account, such that you can submit
some jobs to your chosen Slurm cluster.

For example, you could reserve 30 days of 1k CPU hours
with a Slurm cluster, and if accepted those
cloud credits are consumed from the central pool.
If that Slurm cluster is very busy, it might not
have any available for your selected 30 day period,
but there might some available next month.
With the idea that a specific federation only has
a limited number of CPU hours available each month
from that Slurm system, and users reserve some of
those, on-demand, when they need need them,
and they have not spent them on other cloud credits.

Its possible that very large credit delegations
to a slurm cluster could be used to expand the slurm
cluster using available cloud resources, depending
on them being from a shared pool of resources,
such as a single OpenStack Ironic based cloud.

### Example: Slurm reservations

Similar to Blazar, you could imagine building the
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