Qube Job Basics
Name
This is the name of the job of the job so it can be easily identified in the Qube! UI
Priority
Every job in Qube is assigned a numeric priority. Priority 1 is higher than priority 100. This is similar to 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, etc. The default priority assigned to a job is 9999.
Instances
Instances is the number of times you would like to spawn a session of your application
Examples:
On a 12 slot(core) machine running Maya if you set
"Instances" to 4
"Reservations" to "host.processors=3"
Qube! will open 4 sessions of Maya on the worker simultaneously consuming all slots/cores.
if you set
"Instances" to 1
"Reservations" to "host.processors=1+"
Qube will open 1 session of Maya on the worker consuming all slots/cores ("host.processors=1+" is used for all slots/cores)
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