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The contributed nodes often seem idle. How do I use them if I am not in a particular contributed node queue user group?
There are three queues that will make use of all compute nodes. The Public Shared queues allow job placement to all nodes via LSF. When contributed nodes are idle and there are many jobs already in the normal_public or long_public queue, use of the Public Shared queues will likely land your jobs on idle contributed nodes. See above table for corresponding Public Shared queue names and properties. For more detail on a particular queue:
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