Fernanda Foertter · Jan 6

One time I had a ticket where the user SWORE WITH THEIR WHOLE HEART nothing changed between job 1 and job 2 that failed. Nothing. Until finally … “well of course it’s a new input!” Me: How different is this new input? Oh it’s MUCH bigger. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Chris Dagdigian · Jan 6

I miss the "job arrays seem complicated so I just scripted a loop to sbatch 80,000 individual jobs ..." conversations. T Today most of my requests are due to #aws #parallelcluster auto-scaling failing for quota or "insufficient ec2 capacity" errors -- both error modes not easily visible to users