2.3 Protected Environment HPC Cluster Policies

Access to resources in the protected environment HPC Cluster is restricted to use for projects that require the extra security layers that exist on this cluster. In order to use these resources the user must demonstrate need for access to these resources to CHPC. All users with access have to be provisioned with a HIPAA account in addition to their normal CHPC account. All access to this cluster, including the interactive nodes, requires the use of the campus VPN.

2.3.1 Redwood Job Scheduling Policy

Job Control
Jobs will be controlled through the batch system using Slurm.

Node sharing. No node sharing.
Allocations. No allocation controls.
Best effort to allocate nodes of same CPU speed.
Max time limit for jobs will be as outlined in the QOS definitions below.
Scheduling is set based on a current highest priority set for every job, plus backfill.
Fairshare boost in priority at user level. Minimal boost to help users who haven't been running recently. Our Fairshare window is two weeks.
Small relative to time small short jobs are given a boost for length of time in the queue as it relates to the wall time they have requested.
Reward for parallelism. Set at the global level

Special Reservations - upon request.

Partitions
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Partition Name	Access	Accounts	Node/core count	Memory	Features	Node Specification
redwood	all with PE accounts	<pi>	4/128 11/308	190GB;128GB	chpc, c32, c28	rw[029-032,033-043]
redwood-gpu	by request	redwood-gpu	2/64	190GB	geforce	rw[085-086]
redwood-freecycle	all with PE accounts	<pi>	4/128 11/308	190GB;128GB	chpc, c32, c28	rw[029-032,033-043]
redwood-guest	all with PE accounts	owner-guest	sum of owners	see owner nodes	<owner>, core count	use sinfo to see details
<owner>-rw	restricted	<owner>-rw, owner-guest	use sinfo to see details	use sinfo to see details	<owner>, core count	use sinfo to see details

Job priorities. Majority of a job's priority will be set based on a quality of service definition or QOS. The following initial QOSs to be defined:

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QOS	Priority	Preempts	Preempt Mode	Flags	Maxwall
redwood	100000	redwood-freecycle	cancel		3-00:00:00
redwood-freecycle	10000		cancel	NoReserve	3-00:00:00
redwood-guest	10000		cancel	NoReserve	3-00:00:00
<owner>-rw	100000	kingspeak-guest	cancel	varies	set by owner default is 14-00:00:00