[NLPL Task Force (A)] [rt.uio.no #3406027] gpu usage on Abel

[Stephan Oepen via RT]

dear colleagues,

> User notified.

i am reopening this ticket as it may look as over-allocation of gpus
by this user continues:

[oe at login-0-0 ~]$ squeue --partition=accel | grep michaelm
          26981933     accel   pe_con michaelm PD       0:00      1 (Priority)
          26981931     accel   pe_con michaelm  R 1-10:45:37      1 c19-15
          26981930     accel   pe_con michaelm  R 1-11:25:20      1 c19-16
          26981928     accel   st_con michaelm  R 1-11:53:02      1 c19-5
          26981929     accel   pe_con michaelm  R 1-11:53:02      1 c19-11
          26981926     accel   st_con michaelm  R 1-11:53:49      1 c19-3
          26981927     accel   st_con michaelm  R 1-11:53:49      1 c19-8
          26981924     accel   st_con michaelm  R 1-11:54:36      1 c19-14
[oe at login-0-0 ~]$ for i in 3 5 8 11 14 15 16; do ssh c19-${i}
nvidia-smi | grep Default; done
| N/A   31C    P0    86W / 235W |    673MiB /  5699MiB |     80%      Default |
| N/A   19C    P8    18W / 235W |     11MiB /  5699MiB |      0%      Default |
| N/A   30C    P0    85W / 235W |    673MiB /  5699MiB |     82%      Default |
| N/A   18C    P8    18W / 235W |     11MiB /  5699MiB |      0%      Default |
| N/A   31C    P0    88W / 235W |    673MiB /  5699MiB |     83%      Default |
| N/A   18C    P8    18W / 235W |     11MiB /  5699MiB |      0%      Default |
| N/A   46C    P0    96W / 235W |   1128MiB /  5699MiB |     82%      Default |
| N/A   26C    P8    17W / 235W |     11MiB /  5699MiB |      0%      Default |
| N/A   34C    P0    90W / 235W |    673MiB /  5699MiB |     82%      Default |
| N/A   20C    P8    18W / 235W |     11MiB /  5699MiB |      0%      Default |
| N/A   35C    P0    96W / 235W |   1128MiB /  5699MiB |     86%      Default |
| N/A   20C    P8    17W / 235W |     11MiB /  5699MiB |      0%      Default |
| N/A   33C    P0    90W / 235W |   1128MiB /  5699MiB |     84%      Default |
| N/A   20C    P8    18W / 235W |     11MiB /  5699MiB |      0%      Default |

i do not want to police other abel users.  but unless i mis-read the
above, this usage pattern unnecessarily blocks close to half of one of
the currently most precious resources available.

best wishes (from copenhagen), oe