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Expand Up @@ -38,57 +38,13 @@ be at increased risk of taking a long time in the queue or failing, and
your project's [fair share score](../../Scientific_Computing/Running_Jobs_on_Maui_and_Mahuika/Fair_Share.md)
is likely to suffer. Your project's fair share score will be reduced in
view of compute time spent regardless of whether you obtain a result or
not. 
not.

<table style="width: 646px;">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33%" />
<col style="width: 33%" />
<col style="width: 33%" />
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td class="wysiwyg-text-align-center"
style="width: 60px"><strong>Resource</strong></td>
<td class="wysiwyg-text-align-center"
style="width: 287px"><strong>Asking for too much</strong></td>
<td class="wysiwyg-text-align-center" style="width: 293px"><strong>Not
asking for enough</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td style="width: 60px">Number of CPUs</td>
<td style="width: 287px"><ul>
<li>The job may wait in the queue for longer.</li>
<li>Your fair share score will <span>fall rapidly (your project will be
charged for CPU cores that it reserved but didn't use)</span></li>
</ul></td>
<td style="width: 293px"><ul>
<li>The job will run more slowly than expected, and so may run out of
time and get killed for exceeding its time limit.</li>
</ul></td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td style="width: 60px">Memory</td>
<td style="width: 287px"><ul>
<li>The job may wait in the queue for longer.</li>
<li>Your fair share score will fall more than necessary.</li>
</ul></td>
<td style="width: 293px"><ul>
<li>Your job will fail, probably with an 'OUT OF MEMORY' error,
segmentation fault or bus error. This may not happen immediately.</li>
</ul></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td style="width: 60px">Wall time</td>
<td style="width: 287px"><ul>
<li>The job may wait in the queue for longer than necessary</li>
</ul></td>
<td style="width: 293px"><ul>
<li>The job will run out of time and get killed. </li>
</ul></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
| Resource | Asking for too much | Not asking for enough |
|---|---|---|
| CPUs | The job may wait in the queue for longer. Your fair share score will fall rapidly (your project will be charged for CPU cores that it reserved but didn't use) | The job will run more slowly than expected, and so may run out of time and get killed for exceeding its time limit. |
| Memory | The job may wait in the queue for longer. Your fair share score will fall more than necessary. | Your job will fail, probably with an 'OUT OF MEMORY' error, segmentation fault or bus error. This may not happen immediately. |
| Wall time | The job may wait in the queue for longer than necessary | The job will run out of time and get killed. |

***See our ["What is an allocation?" support page](../../Getting_Started/Accounts-Projects_and_Allocations/What_is_an_allocation.md) for more details on how each resource effects your compute usage.***

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will (hopefully) not have waited for hours or days in the queue
beforehand.

!!! example "Examples"
[Multithreading Scaling](../../Getting_Started/Next_Steps/Multithreading_Scaling_Example.md)

[MPI Scaling](../../Getting_Started/Next_Steps/MPI_Scaling_Example.md)
!!! example
- [Multithreading Scaling](../../Getting_Started/Next_Steps/Multithreading_Scaling_Example.md)

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