Running-the-jobs.md

@@ -23,6 +23,19 @@ How to run and place MPI jobs.
 * [Interactive sessions](Running-the-jobs/Interactive sessions)
 How to connect to a node for an interactive session.
 
+## Partition usage
+There are different partitions adapted to different kind of jobs. The time limit for each partition can be obtained with the command [sinfo](https://slurm.schedmd.com/sinfo.html).  
+### Licallo
+
+* *seq:* for sequential/multi-thread jobs.
+* *short-seq:* for short sequential/multi-thread jobs.
+* *x40:* for parallel jobs, each node has 40 core.
+* *short:* for short parallel jobs
+* *fdr:* should be avoided.  
+* *besteffort:* for idempotent jobs. This partition has few constraints, but jobs of this partition will be interrupted whenever theirs resources are needed  (advanced).
+* *bash:* for interactive jobs.
+
+
 # Controlling/querying jobs
 * [When is my job going to start](Running-the-jobs/When is my job going to start)