Scheduling policy updates

This page records changes to job scheduling policies which might affect the behaviour of job submission commands sbatch, salloc, and srun.

Accounts

RAC allocations

• RAC 2026 accounts activated
  • Fir: 2026-04-06
  • Nibi: 2026-04-06
  • Narval: 2026-04-07
  • Rorqual: 2026-04-07

Other account updates

• Sub-allocations available
  • Fir: 2026-04-06
  • Nibi: 2026-04-06
  • Narval: 2026-04-07
  • Rorqual: 2026-04-07

CPU jobs

(none as of May 1, 2026)

GPU jobs

• All GPU requests must specify a GPU model or an instance model
  • Fir: 2026-04-06
  • Nibi: 2026-04-06
  • Narval: (coming soon)
  • Rorqual: 2026-04-17
• Only one MIG instance may be requested at a time
  • Fir: 2026-04-06
  • Nibi: 2026-04-06
  • Narval: (coming soon)
  • Rorqual: 2026-04-17