Increasing the priority of a job

To increase the priority of a job, use the command nsc-boost-priority command on the login node. nsc-boost-priority --help will show the available options.

Example: check the cost of increasing the priority of a job

[x_makro@tetralith1 ~]$ nsc-boost-priority -c 14399940
The cost for boosting the priority of job 14399940 is 80.0 tokens
Project nsc-guest has 29634.8 tokens available

Example: increase the priority of a job

[x_makro@tetralith1 ~]$ nsc-boost-priority 14399940
Your job's priority has been boosted. The cost of this operation was 80.0 tokens.
Project nsc-guest now has 29554.8 tokens available

A boosted job will have a higher priority than all normal jobs.

Boosted jobs are not affected by the "QOSUsageThreshold" limit and do not affect the project's future fair-share priority. I.e they are run "for free" (but will show up in projinfo and SUPR).

Cost

The base cost of boosting the priority of a job is currently 10 tokens per core hour¹ (e.g boosting the priority of a job that requests 16 cores for one hour costs 160 tokens).