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Alternatively ECMWF accepts jobs without "#SBATCH --time=" or command line option "-–time=" and ECMWF will instead use average runtime runtimes of previous "similar" jobs and allow some grace before it will be killed.
"similar" jobs can be identified by a jobtag generated based on user ID, job name, job geometry and job output path.
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For jobs were no recent previous runtime could be found, the assumption assumed runtime is 24h runtime plus an allowance of another 24h as grace time, allowing a new job to run for up to 48h.
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