Re: [slurm-users] Working with local licenses

2020-09-25 Thread Tager, Alexey
Hi Ahmet, I agree, it isn't so good solution Thanks Alexey -Original Message- From: mercan Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 11:50 AM To: Tager, Alexey ; Slurm User Community List Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [slurm-users] Working with local licenses CAUTION: This email originated from ou

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM reservations with MAGNETIC flag

2020-09-25 Thread Bas van der Vlies
Thanks Troy, That is our intention also for course/training purposes if there are course days. regards -- Bas van der Vlies | Operations, Support & Development | SURFsara | Science Park 140 | 1098 XG Amsterdam | T +31 (0) 20 800 1300 | bas.vandervl...@surf.nl | www.surf.nl | > On 25 Se

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM reservations with MAGNETIC flag

2020-09-25 Thread Baer, Troy
I've been looking at it for classroom type reservations, but I ran into a bug where jobs that weren't eligible to access the reservation were being attracted to it anyway. That's supposed to be fixed in 20.02.6. See https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9593 for details. --Troy O

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM reservations with MAGNETIC flag

2020-09-25 Thread Bas van der Vlies
Are people using the MAGNETIC reservation flag? My question would be how? because to my it would be more useful if the reservation is tried first and then the free nodes. That is what I expected with the MAGNETIC flag. Bas van der Vlies | Operations, Support & Development | SURFsara | Science

Re: [slurm-users] Working with local licenses

2020-09-25 Thread Tager, Alexey
Hi Ahmet, We tried remote licenses, but encountered following issues, which lead us to using of local licenses. - only low case while inserting by sacctmgr - dead locks and duplicate records - direct insert is working and case sensitive, but scontrol doesn't see change until slurmctld restart

[slurm-users] Working with local licenses

2020-09-25 Thread Tager, Alexey
Hello, We use local licenses by updating slurm.conf with script, which talking with FlexLM We execute "scontrol reconfigure" every 1 min after file change in crontab Users get following error when run slurm commands (srun,scontrol etc.) during crontab execution, as result srun failed on license r

Re: [slurm-users] Features request

2020-09-25 Thread Relu Patrascu
Thank you for your ideas Diego. On 2020-09-25 02:20, Diego Zuccato wrote: Il 25/09/20 00:04, Relu Patrascu ha scritto: 1. Allow preemption in the same QOS, all else being equal, based on job priority. You'd risk having jobs continuously preempted by jobs that have been in queue for a bit: o

Re: [slurm-users] Working with local licenses

2020-09-25 Thread mercan
Hi; But, restarting in every minute, is not a good solution. Ahmet M. On 25.09.2020 11:25, Tager, Alexey wrote: Hi Ahmet, We tried remote licenses, but encountered following issues, which lead us to using of local licenses. - only low case while inserting by sacctmgr - dead locks and dupl

Re: [slurm-users] Working with local licenses

2020-09-25 Thread mercan
Hi; You don't need to modify slurm.conf and reconfigure. There is a remote/dynamic licenses feature: https://slurm.schedmd.com/licenses.html You can add licenses using scontrol command such as: sacctmgr add resource name=matlab count=50 server=rlm_host \   servertype=rlm type=license Regard

Re: [slurm-users] Compiling Slurm with nvml support

2020-09-25 Thread Bas van der Vlies
That is why we switched to tarball installations with version directories as suggested by schedmd. No deb/rpm installations any more. -- Bas van der Vlies | Operations, Support & Development | SURFsara | Science Park 140 | 1098 XG Amsterdam | T +31 (0) 20 800 1300 | bas.vandervl...@surf.nl |