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Memory Allocation Limits

Memory Allocation Limits Table

SLURM (Stanage) Cross node MPI execution enabled

SLURM (Bessemer) Single node execution only

Default Job Memory Request

4016 MB

2 GB

Standard Nodes

251 MB

192 GB

Large RAM Nodes

1007 GB

N/A

Very Large RAM Nodes

2014 GB

N/A

Interactive Job

Maximum Possible Request

251 GB

192 GB

Batch Job (SMP)

Maximum Regular Node Request

251 GB

192 GB

Maximum Possible Request

2014 GB

192 GB

Batch Job (MPI)

Maximum Possible Request

~74404 GB

192 GB

Submission Argument on a per node (job) basis

–mem=<nn>

–mem=<nn>