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Determining Partition Status

An old way to obtain the status of all partitions and their current usage is to run the following SLURM command:

sinfo PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE NODELIST

Here is a brief description of the relevant fields:

• PARTITION: Name of a partition. Node that the suffix "*" identifies the default partition.
• AVAIL: Partition state: up or down.
• TIMELIMIT: Maximum time limit for an user job in days-hours:minutes:seconds.
• NODES: Count of nodes with this particular configuration by node state in the form "[A]vailable/[I]dle/[O]ther/[T]otal"
• STATE: State of the nodes.
• NODELIST: Names of nodes associated with this configuration/partition.

See the manpage for sinfo for more information:

man sinfo

The reason this is an old way of determining cluster status is due to floating partitions and QOS usage. Although the above command can help you determine partition status, it does not provide a complete picture. The following command coupled with the above can help connect things together:

sacctmgr show qos

We acknowledge the complexity of the output from these commands and are working on a way to present this information in a more helpful way. For the time being and completeness we provide this information.