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====== Utilization and accounting ====== | ====== Utilization and accounting ====== | ||
When you submit jobs, they are using physical resources such as CPUs, Memory, Network, GPUs, Energy etc. We keep track of the usage of some of those resource. On this page we'll let you know how to consult your usage of the resource. We have several tools that you can use to consult your utilization: | When you submit jobs, they are using physical resources such as CPUs, Memory, Network, GPUs, Energy etc. We keep track of the usage of some of those resource. On this page we'll let you know how to consult your usage of the resource. We have several tools that you can use to consult your utilization: | ||
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+ | ===== Comparison of sreport, sacct, and sshare ===== | ||
+ | We use **sreport** as our primary accounting reference. However, you may find other tools useful for specific purposes. Here's a comparison: | ||
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+ | * **sacct**: Displays only account jobs, excluding time allocated via reservations. If duplicate jobs exist, only one is shown. | ||
+ | * **sreport**: | ||
+ | * **sshare**: Not recommended for accounting purposes; displayed values are adjusted based on fairshare calculations. | ||
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+ | ===== Resource accounting uniformization ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | We charge usage uniformly by converting GPU hours and memory usage into CPU hour equivalents, | ||
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+ | A CPU hour represents one hour of processing time by a single CPU core. | ||
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+ | For GPUs, SLURM assigns a conversion factor to each GPU model through TRESBillingWeights (see below the conversion table), reflecting its computational performance relative to a CPU. Similarly, memory usage is also converted into CPU hour equivalents based on predefined weights, ensuring that jobs consuming significant memory resources are accounted for fairly. | ||
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+ | For example, a job using a GPU with a weight of 10 for 2 hours and memory equivalent to 5 CPU hours would be billed as 25 CPU hours. This approach ensures consistent, transparent, | ||
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+ | You can see the detail of the conversion by looking at the parameter of a random partition on any of the clusters. We are using the same conversion table everywhere. | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | (bamboo)-[root@slurm1 ~]$ scontrol show partition debug-cpu | grep TRESBillingWeights | tr "," | ||
+ | | ||
+ | Mem=0.25G | ||
+ | GRES/gpu=1 | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | GRES/ | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Here you can see for example that using a gpu nvidia_a100-pcie-40gb for 1 hour is equivalent in term of cost to use 5 CPUhour. | ||
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+ | ===== Resources available for research group ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | Research groups that have invested in the HPC cluster by purchasing private CPU or GPU nodes benefit from high priority access to these resources. | ||
+ | |||
+ | While these nodes remain available to all users, owners receive priority scheduling and a designated number of included compute hours per year. | ||
+ | |||
+ | To check the details of their owned resources, users can run the script '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Example: | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | ug_getNodeCharacteristicsSummary.sh --partitions private-< | ||
+ | host sn | ||
+ | ------ | ||
+ | cpu084 | ||
+ | cpu085 | ||
+ | cpu086 | ||
+ | cpu087 | ||
+ | cpu088 | ||
+ | cpu089 | ||
+ | cpu090 | ||
+ | cpu209 | ||
+ | cpu210 | ||
+ | cpu211 | ||
+ | cpu212 | ||
+ | cpu213 | ||
+ | cpu226 | ||
+ | cpu227 | ||
+ | cpu228 | ||
+ | cpu229 | ||
+ | cpu277 | ||
+ | gpu002 | ||
+ | gpu012 | ||
+ | gpu017 | ||
+ | gpu023 | ||
+ | gpu024 | ||
+ | gpu044 | ||
+ | gpu047 | ||
+ | gpu049 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ============================================================ Summary ============================================================ | ||
+ | Total CPUs: 1364 Total CPUs memory[GB]: 6059 Total GPUs: 61 Total GPUs memory[MB]: 142300 Billing: 1959 CPUhours per year: 10.30M | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | How to read the output: | ||
+ | * **host**: the hostname of the compute node | ||
+ | * **sn**: the serial number of the node | ||
+ | * **cpu**: the number of CPUs available in the node | ||
+ | * **mem**: the quantity of memory on the node in GB | ||
+ | * **gpunumber**: | ||
+ | * **gpudeleted**: | ||
+ | * **gpumodel**: | ||
+ | * **gpumemory**: | ||
+ | * **purchasedate**: | ||
+ | * **months remaining in prod. (Jan 2025)**: the number of months the node remains the property of the research group, the reference date is indicated in parenthesis. In this example it is January 2025. | ||
+ | * **billing**: | ||
+ | |||
+ | You can modify the reference year if you want to " | ||
===== Job accounting ===== | ===== Job accounting ===== | ||
- | If you are interested in your HPC usage, group usage, job wait time, etc., we have the right tools for you. | ||
==== OpenXDMoD ==== | ==== OpenXDMoD ==== | ||
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To get reporting about your past jobs, you can use '' | To get reporting about your past jobs, you can use '' | ||
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+ | We wrote a helper that you can use to get your past resource usage on the cluster. This script can display the resource utilization | ||
+ | * for each user of a given account (PI) | ||
+ | * total usage of a given account (PI) | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | (baobab)-[sagon@login1 ~]$ ug_slurm_usage_per_user.py -h | ||
+ | usage: ug_slurm_usage_per_user.py [-h] [--user USER] [--start START] [--end END] [--pi PI] [--cluster CLUSTER] [--all_users] [--report_type {user, | ||
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+ | Retrieve HPC utilization statistics for a user within a specified time range. | ||
+ | |||
+ | options: | ||
+ | -h, --help | ||
+ | --user USER The username to retrieve utilization for. | ||
+ | --start START Start date (default: first day of current month). | ||
+ | --end END End date (default: current time). | ||
+ | --pi PI | ||
+ | --cluster CLUSTER | ||
+ | --all_users | ||
+ | --report_type {user, | ||
+ | Report type: UserUtilizationByAccount or AccountUtilizationByUser | ||
+ | --time_format TIME_FORMAT | ||
+ | Specify the time formt for the reporting. Default is by hours. You can use Minutes or Seconds | ||
+ | --verbose | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | By default when you run this script, it will print your past usage of the current month, for all the accounts you are member of. | ||
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+ | |||
+ | === sreport examples === | ||
Here are some examples that can give you a starting point : | Here are some examples that can give you a starting point : | ||
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- | ==== Differences between sreport, sacct and sshare ==== | ||
- | * sacct: Displays only account jobs, excluding time requested via reservation. If duplicate jobs exist, only one is returned. | ||
- | * sreport: By default, the report is truncated if a job's wall time overlaps the report' | ||
- | * sshare: Avoid using sshare as an accounting reference; the displayed values are adjusted due to fairshare calculations. | ||
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- | ==== Resource accounting uniformization ==== | ||
- | |||
- | We charge usage uniformly by converting GPU hours and memory usage into CPU hour equivalents, | ||
- | |||
- | A CPU hour represents one hour of processing time by a single CPU core. | ||
- | |||
- | For GPUs, SLURM assigns a conversion factor to each GPU model through TRESBillingWeights (see below the conversion table), reflecting its computational performance relative to a CPU. Similarly, memory usage is also converted into CPU hour equivalents based on predefined weights, ensuring that jobs consuming significant memory resources are accounted for fairly. | ||
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- | For example, a job using a GPU with a weight of 10 for 2 hours and memory equivalent to 5 CPU hours would be billed as 25 CPU hours. This approach ensures consistent, transparent, | ||
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