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Job core hours

Job core hours counts the resource used by a job as the sum of hours of each core on which the job's tasks are running.

You may get the value of job core hours with the following methods:

  • CLI tool job.exe

    job list /corehours

    or

    job view

  • GUI HPC Pack Cluster Manager or HPC Pack Job Manager In the "Job Management" tab, right click the title bar, select "Column Chooser" and add "Core Hours".

Node cost

Node cost represents the unitless cost of a node to help attribute the cost of jobs running on a node. The cost of per core is the cost of node divided by core count.

To set and get the cost of nodes with the CLI tool node.exe :

node setcost

and

node list

Job cost

Job cost counts the resources used by a job as the sum of cost of each core on which the job's tasks are running.

You can get the value for job cost with the following methods:

  • CLI tool job.exe

    job list /cost

    or

    job view

  • GUI HPC Pack Cluster Manager or HPC Pack Job Manager

    In the "Job Management" tab, right click the title bar, select "Column Chooser" and add "Cost".

Job purging

Old jobs, which are in the finished, failed, or canceled state and have no child jobs, can be purged from database manually in addition to the automatic cleanup processing in the scheduler. Administrators may purge multiple old jobs in one command.

To purge job(s) with the CLI tool job.exe :

job purge