Instances are the amount of times you would like to spawn a session of your application Example This is the number of copies of the application that will run at the same time across the network. The combination of "Instances=1" and "Max Instances=-1" means that this job will take as much of the farm as it can, and all jobs will share evenly across the farm.
Examples: On a 12 slot(core) machine running Maya if you set "Instances" to 4 "Reservations" to "host.processors=3" Qube! will open 4 sessions of Maya on the worker simultaneously consuming Worker(s) simultaneously, which may consume all slots/cores on a given Worker. if you set "Instances" to 1 "Reservations" to "host.processors=1+" Qube will open 1 session of Maya on the worker a Worker, consuming all slots/cores ("host.processors=1+" is used for all slots/cores). Max Instances If resources are available, Qube! will spawn more than 'Instances' copies of the application, but no more than 'Max Instances'. The default of -1 means there is no maximum. If this is set to 0, then it won't spawn more than 'Instances' copies.
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