#preemption

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HPC Lab · June 13, 2026 · 8 min

The condo model and the money shot: watching Slurm preempt a job

Sherlock's condo model: research groups buy nodes and get guaranteed priority; everyone else uses idle cycles and gets bumped when an owner shows up. Here we configure it on two VMs and watch a high-priority job preempt a running one, live.