Re: [slurm-users] About x11 support

2018-11-15 Thread Mahmood Naderan
>You can (apparently) still use the external plugin if you build Slurm without >its internal X11 support. Is there any way to query slurm to see if the x11 module has been compiled? Currently, I am using the slurm roll on rocks 7. Previously, I was able to use spank with slurm roll 17. While, the

Re: [slurm-users] Spreading jobs across servers instead of loading up individual nodes

2018-11-15 Thread Paul Edmon
I recommend the LLN option for partitions: *LLN* Schedule resources to jobs on the least loaded nodes (based upon the number of idle CPUs). This is generally only recommended for an environment with serial jobs as idle resources will tend to be highly fragmented, resulting in parallel

Re: [slurm-users] About x11 support

2018-11-15 Thread Chris Samuel
On Thursday, 15 November 2018 9:36:08 PM AEDT Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Is there any update about native support of x11 in slurm v18? It works here... $ srun --x11 xdpyinfo srun: job 1744869 queued and waiting for resources srun: job 1744869 has been allocated resources name of display:loc

[slurm-users] About x11 support

2018-11-15 Thread Mahmood Naderan
Hi, Is there any update about native support of x11 in slurm v18? Prior to that, I used spank-x11 where an rpm file was installed on the nodes to support x11. Now that I removed the rpm, I can not use srun with x11 support. [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ srun --nodelist=rocks7 -n 1 -c 4 --mem=4G --x11 -A y8

[slurm-users] Spreading jobs across servers instead of loading up individual nodes

2018-11-15 Thread Aravindh Sampathkumar
Hi All. I'm having some trouble finding appropriate section of the documentation to change slurm resource allocation policy. We have configured CPU and memory as consumable resources, and our nodes can run multiple jobs as long as there are CPU memory available. What I want is for Slurm to spread