Re: [slurm-users] sacct not shows user

2018-04-26 Thread Chris Samuel
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 8:20:51 PM AEST sysadmin.caos wrote: > It seems "Account" column always shows "(null)" value. Is it normal or > my SLURM has a wrong configuration? Have you defined any accounts and, if so, added people to them? If you haven't set AccountingStorageEnforce to anything t

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM on Ubuntu 16.04

2018-04-26 Thread Chris Samuel
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 11:27:35 PM AEST Patrick Goetz wrote: > He has 4 nodes and one master. I'm pretty sure he's not going to be > using slurmdbd? No, he may have a greater need for it to be able to do fair-share (or some other sort of balancing or hard limits) over a smaller amount of re

Re: [slurm-users] sacctmgr - Use-case for 'Organisation' != 'Parent'

2018-04-26 Thread Marcin Stolarek
For me is a shortcut for description On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 15:29, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently looking at ironing out a few crinkles in my account > hierarchy and was looking at the attributes 'Parent' and 'Organisation' > again. I use 'Parent' to set up the account hierarchy,

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM on Ubuntu 16.04

2018-04-26 Thread Eric F. Alemany
Good morning As you mentioned right now I have 1 master and 4 nodes and couple post-docs. I think we can manage it without the SQL ( MariaDB) accounting feature. I read in the schedmd website that I can use a text file instead of the sql database. I will still need to found out how to configure

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM on Ubuntu 16.04

2018-04-26 Thread Patrick Goetz
I don't think the problem Chris is referring to (a SQL injection attack) is going to apply to you because you're way too small to need to worry about Slurm accounting, but if it is a concern, install the distro packages; confirm that things are roughly working and then just take note of how thi

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM on Ubuntu 16.04

2018-04-26 Thread Patrick Goetz
Hi Chris - He has 4 nodes and one master. I'm pretty sure he's not going to be using slurmdbd? Of course something to keep in mind if things work out so well that his organization is commanding him to order an additional thousand nodes in 6 months. On 04/25/2018 07:03 PM, Christopher Samu

[slurm-users] sacctmgr - Use-case for 'Organisation' != 'Parent'

2018-04-26 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi, I'm currently looking at ironing out a few crinkles in my account hierarchy and was looking at the attributes 'Parent' and 'Organisation' again. I use 'Parent' to set up the account hierarchy, which in my case represents the structure of university departments and institutes with in them. I

Re: [slurm-users] sacct not shows user

2018-04-26 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
Hi, Did you set up Slurm accounting? Some information is in my Wiki https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_accounting /Ole On 04/26/2018 12:20 PM, sysadmin.caos wrote: Hello, when I run "sacct", output is this:    JobID    JobName  Partition    Account  AllocCPUS State ExitCode

[slurm-users] sacct not shows user

2018-04-26 Thread sysadmin.caos
Hello, when I run "sacct", output is this:    JobID    JobName  Partition    Account  AllocCPUS State ExitCode -- -- -- -- -- [...] 2810    bas nodo.q (null) 0 FAILED  2:0 2811   bash nod

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm overhead

2018-04-26 Thread John Hearns
Mahmood, do you haave Hyperthreading enabled? That may be the root cause of your problem. If you have hyperhtreading, then when you start to run more than the number of PHYSICAL cores you will get over-subscription. Now, with certain workloads that is fine - that is what hyperhtreading is all abou

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm overhead

2018-04-26 Thread Mahmood Naderan
It seems that the number of threads has some effects on the performance. Maybe some configurations issue exists in openmpi. I will investigate more on that. Thanks guys for the tips. Regards, Mahmood On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 9:18 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > I would likely crank up the debugg