Fairshare

Read: HPC Fairshare scheduling @ MSI

The goal of fairshare is to increase the priority when scheduling jobs. When a group has recently used a large amount of resources, the priorities of their waiting jobs will be negatively affected until their usage decreases.

sshare -U x500: checks all of the accounts a user has access to at once

• Below is an example of a terminal output after running the above command:
• Based on the values in the FairShare column, the larger numbers will receive higher priority when running jobs. So with the below output, the user would want to submit jobs using feczk001.

For checking the fairshare of a specific account, use sshare --account=$account_name -a: $account_name is the group account that you want to check the fairshare of. The group account names are: miran045, faird, feczk001, rando149.

• The number within the FairShare column is a fraction of the total fairshare remaining, with larger numbers meaning a higher priority and smaller numbers meaning a lower priority
• For more detail, watch this video.