Hi,
I was wondering if I am missing some configuration parameters in CycleCloud (or Slurm) to prevent Slurm nodes being span up and down just for single jobs.
I have disabled autoscaling for now and set nodes to deallocate instead of terminating on stop. If I start a bunch of nodes before I submit any jobs these then straight away run the jobs at the top of the queue. However, these then deallocate and new nodes (of the same size) spin up to handle the next jobs in the queue.
Given the time it takes to aquire the VMs, is there a method to stop the 'Ready' nodes deallocating and then use those for the next jobs in the queue?
Thanks