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Queue resource limits

Queue

Max Walltime

Max Cores Per Job

Max Cores per User

Memory per node (GB)

Cores per chunk

Number of Nodes

Fair Share Weight

small*

1 day

24

128

< 123

24

59

10

normal*

7 days

96

96

< 123

32

49

10

large*

21 days

288

288

< 123

32

61

10

highmem*

21 days

192

192

123 to 6144

64

3

50

gpu*

7 days

252

252

< 185

36 (4 GPUs)

7

50

dtq

10 days

2

16

< 16

24

2

0

interactive

4 hours

4

4

< 123

4

1

100

  • *The small, normal, large, high memory and GPU queues are all accessed via defaultQ. You cannot directly request these queues.
  • The interactive queue is requested using the qsub -I command via the command line. You cannot request interactive access with #PBS -q interactive.
  • The maximum number of jobs a user can have queued is 200 in defaultQ.
  • The maximum number of cores one user can simultaneously use is 600.
  • Array jobs are limited to 1000 elements.
  • small, normal, large require max 20GB per core.
  • N/A = Not Applicable.