Slurm Partitions (Queues)

Created by Kali McLennan, Modified on Thu, 24 Apr at 2:43 PM by Ian Fisk

The following partitions are available for job submissions on the Empire AI Alpha system:

Partition Name	Resource Limits	Notes
priority	Maximum of 48x GPUs	Will only accept job submissions by the institution with weekly priority.
columbia	Unlimited	Only accepts jobs for Columbia users.
cornell	Unlimited	Only accepts jobs for Cornell users.
cuny	Unlimited	Only accepts jobs for CUNY users.
nyu	Unlimited	Only accepts jobs for NYU users.
rpi	Unlimited	Only accepts jobs for RPI users.
suny	Unlimited	Only accepts jobs for SUNY users
cpu	Unlimited	Accepts jobs from any users, but only for non-GPU work

Note: You may see additional partitions in the scheduler. Any partitions not listed on this page are not intended for regular use and are usually for diagnostic or testing purposes.

Priority Partition Rotation

Each Monday at 6:00 AM access to the priority partition will rotate to a new institution. Any pending jobs in the priority partition will be requeued into the general partition.

General Partition Information

The general partition is available for all users to submit jobs to.

Best Practices & Advice to Maximize Your Productivity

It is recommended that users submit jobs to all partitions where their jobs could run. This is accomplished by specifying a comma-delimited list of partitions in the job script. For example, to submit a job to both the cuny and priority partitions one would use:

#SBATCH --partition=cuny, priority

CPU Only Partitions

Users who do not need GPUs should submit their work for to the "cpu" partition