Our friends over at Altair explain how a meta-scheduler, or hierarchical scheduler, can be thought of as a private or team-based scheduler that uses shared underlying resources. Difficult workloads and special workloads are good candidates for meta-scheduling. Examples include sets of several hundred thousand short jobs, jobs with complex dependencies, and workflows that are continually introspected for status.
Slidecast: Rev Up Your HPC Engine
June 12, 2014 by
In this slidecast, Fritz Ferstl from Univa presents: Rev Up Your HPC Engine. The presentation explores the challenges for Workload Management systems in today’s datacenters with ever-increasing core counts.
