Re: [slurm-users] [External] Re: DMTCP or MANA with Slurm?

2021-06-01 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Chris, Thanks! If someone could answer my questions on the mailing list, that would be super! I'd really love to use DMTCP/MANA, and in fact have a user waiting for me to make it available. Prentice On 5/28/21 7:14 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: On 5/27/21 12:26 pm, Prentice Bisbal wrote: G

Re: [slurm-users] Conflicting --nodes and --nodelist

2021-06-01 Thread Brian Andrus
That is expected behavior as Marcus pointed out. I suspect you may be doing something like targeting one of two systems that each have a node-locked license for some software, or have some different specs. In this case, you may want to use the FEATURES option when defining those nodes and th

Re: [slurm-users] Conflicting --nodes and --nodelist

2021-06-01 Thread Marcus Boden
Hi, as per https://slurm.schedmd.com/archive/slurm-18.08.5/sbatch.html#OPT_nodelist Request a specific list of hosts. The job will contain *all* of these hosts and possibly additional hosts as needed to satisfy resource requirements. So at least in the sbatch manpage it explicitly states t

[slurm-users] Conflicting --nodes and --nodelist

2021-06-01 Thread Diego Zuccato
Hello all. I just found that if an user tries to specify a nodelist (say including 2 nodes) and --nodes=1, the job gets rejected with sbatch: error: invalid number of nodes (-N 2-1) The expected behaviour is that slurm schedules the job on the first node available from the list. I've found co