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Co-authored-by: Alex Domingo <[email protected]>
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smoors and lexming authored Dec 8, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -178,11 +178,12 @@ is running on the node where you ran ``salloc`` (likely a login node). Contrary
``srun``, the shell is **not** running on the allocated resources. You can
however run commands on the allocated resources via ``srun``.

**Note that in particular on clusters with multiple CPU architectures, you need to
understand Linux environments and the way they interact with Slurm very well as you
are now executing commands in two potentially incompatible sections of the cluster that
require different settings in the environment. So if you execute a command in the wrong
environment it may run inefficiently, or it may simply fail.**
**.. note::
Note that in particular on clusters with multiple CPU architectures, you need to
understand Linux environments and the way they interact with Slurm very well as you
are now executing commands in two potentially incompatible sections of the cluster that
require different settings in the environment. So if you execute a command in the wrong
environment it may run inefficiently, or it may simply fail.**

There is no problem with Vaughan though as on that cluster all CPUs are of the same
generation.
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