[slurm-users] Why GPU do not become available when job suspended?

2018-05-12 Thread Zheng Gong
Hi, I'm reading the GRES Scheduling document. It says: > If the job is suspended, those resources do not become available for use > by other jobs. I think this explains why GPU jobs can not be preempted. But I don't know why the GRES cannot be released after the job suspended. Even if I manua

Re: [slurm-users] Python and R installation in a SLURM cluster

2018-05-12 Thread John Hearns
Completely as an aside, the next question then is 'Aha - but what happens when you have new users on the cluster' I am currently working with sssd authentication and with the pam_mkhomedir plugin. I guess if an MPI job is launched using ssh then pam_mkhomedir would automatically create the home dir

Re: [slurm-users] Python and R installation in a SLURM cluster

2018-05-12 Thread John Hearns
Well I DID say that you need 'what looks like a home directory'. So yes indeed you prove, correctly, that this works just fine! On 12 May 2018 at 20:17, Eric F. Alemany wrote: > > Hi John, > > No worries at all. I take all ideas, comments and advice with the greatest > respect. > I know that my

Re: [slurm-users] Python and R installation in a SLURM cluster

2018-05-12 Thread Miguel Gutiérrez Páez
Hi, Home directory are also shared among all nodes (and head one as well). The base system (that is, local drive, including os, system files, etc) are identical and cloned based among all the hosts. If I need to install some light package (dev version of a library for example or similar) I install

Re: [slurm-users] Python and R installation in a SLURM cluster

2018-05-12 Thread Eric F. Alemany
._ Eric F. Alemany System Administrator for Research Division of Radiation & Cancer Biology Department of Radiation Oncology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, California 94305

Re: [slurm-users] Issue with salloc

2018-05-12 Thread Mahmood Naderan
I tried the following command but it failed [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ srun --pty -u /bin/bash -l -a em1 -p IACTIVE --mem=4GB srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: Invalid account or account/partition combination specified [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ scontrol show partition IACTIVE PartitionName=IACTIVE

[slurm-users] Taking a break from slurm-users

2018-05-12 Thread Chris Samuel
Hey folks, I'm going to be unsubscribing from slurm-users for a while as I'll be travelling to the US & UK for a number of weeks & I don't want to drown in email. I'll be back... -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: [slurm-users] Python and R installation in a SLURM cluster

2018-05-12 Thread John Hearns
Eric, I'm sorry to be a little prickly here. Each node has an independent home directory for the user? How then do applications update dot files? How then would as a for instance do the users edit the .bashrc file to bring Anaconda into their paths? Beofre anyone says it, a proper Modules system i