4. Job priority: _See [Priority calculations](#priority-calculations) and [QoS priority](#qos-priority)_
6. Job ID
## Partitions
In SLURM, a partition is a scheduling construct that groups nodes or resources based on certain characteristics or policies. Partitions are used to organize and manage resources within a cluster, and they allow system administrators to control how jobs are allocated and executed on different nodes.
### Priority tiers
To see all paritions on DAIC, you can use the command `scontrol show parition -a`. To check owners of these partitions, check the [Contributing departments](introduction/contributors-funders/#contributing-departments) page.
### Partitions & priority tiers
DAIC partitions are tiered:
- The `general` partition is in the _lowest priority tier_,
- Department partitions (eg, `insy`, `st`) are in the _middle priority tier_, and
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These per-group and per-user limits are set by the DAIC user board, and the scheduler strictly enforces these limits. Thus, no user can use more resources than the amount that was set by the user board. Any (perceived) imbalance in the use of resources by a certain QoS or user should not be held against a user or the scheduler, but should be discussed in the user board.
## Partitions
In SLURM, a partition is a scheduling construct that groups nodes or resources based on certain characteristics or policies. Partitions are used to organize and manage resources within a cluster, and they allow system administrators to control how jobs are allocated and executed on different nodes.
### See partition definitions
On DAIC the `scontrol` command only shows you the general partitions. More partitions are available.