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It is possible to control how much a job automatically expands, on a job-by-job basis, by setting a new job attribute called "max_cpus" at submission. This value sets an upper limit to the number of instances to which the job will expand. The max_cpus parameter is only visible in the submission UI when in Expert Mode. If an end-user does nothing, their job will expand as wide widely as the system administrator has defined (see Configuring SmartShare, below). The administrator can specify a default and a maximum value for max_cpus.
Jobs will expand to their max_cpus value if there are enough empty slots on the farm. As other users begin to submit jobs as well, a user's job will shrink to allow for a more "balanced" usage of the farm between jobs. No job will shrink below its "instance count" (or "CPUs") value. For example, a job submitted from the command line "qbsub" utility as
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