Add CWL + MPI docs#5551
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I don't think toil-cwl-runner actually supports slurm + MPI properly yet
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This means that toil is not correctly configured for MPI. such flags should only be added to MPI jobs, not every single job.
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Ah, I think I see what you mean. In this example it'd be fine as there is a single job and it is using MPI. But if we had other jobs that do not require MPI and must be executed elsewhere (cloud, locally, container) then we wouldn't want them to be under the same Slurm allocation.
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Add documentation for MPI support in CWL workflows in Toil. Closes #5546
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issues/XXXX-fix-the-thingin the Toil repo, or from an external repo.camelCasethat want to be insnake_case.docs/running/{cliOptions,cwl,wdl}.rstMerger Checklist