it's job steps that lack switch windows. Needed for LSF operation.
    Based upon slurm.hp.node_fail.patch.

    if their count exceeds the task count. Based on slurm.hp.srun.patch.

    http://www.open-mpi.org/software/plpa).

NOTE: select_g_alloc_jobinfo() now sets geometry and rotate to NO_VAL 
rather than 0 and 1 respectively. This is needed to tell when the user 
specified new values for the paramters or if they are still in the initial 
settings.

(uint16_t) NO_VAL