Re: [slurm-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: Query about sbatch: Request X nodes in a range?

2021-07-14 Thread Thompson, Matt (GSFC-610.1)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC]
Max, Well, that was just an example. I also was doing the same things with like 125 node runs. Obviously, that's beyond a rack and your chances of hitting a down node increases! I guess I figured if I can under-specify a nodelist, maybe I could over-specify it! It's possible that using the top

[slurm-users] Query about sbatch: Request X nodes in a range?

2021-07-14 Thread Thompson, Matt (GSFC-610.1)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC]
All, A simple user SLURM question. Recently I had a need to request a certain range of nodes on a cluster, and I found SLURM was acting against my assumption, but exactly as the man page says. Namely, I needed say, 20 nodes on a cluster on the same rack (benchmarking!), but I suspected that so

Re: [slurm-users] Query about sbatch: Request X nodes in a range?

2021-07-14 Thread Max Voit
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:04:45 + "Thompson, Matt (GSFC-610.1)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC]" wrote: > Namely, I needed say, 20 nodes on a cluster on the same rack > ... > So, my question is, is there a way to say, "Please give me X nodes > inside this specific range of nodes?" Is the r

Re: [slurm-users] Minimum requirements for Slurm daemons?

2021-07-14 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
On 7/14/21 3:26 PM, Heitor wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 21:00:45 +0200 Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: SchedMD recommends that the slurmctld server should have only a few, but very fast CPU cores, in order to ensure the best responsiveness. The database server should preferably run on a physical serv

Re: [slurm-users] Minimum requirements for Slurm daemons?

2021-07-14 Thread Heitor
On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 21:00:45 +0200 Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: > SchedMD recommends that the slurmctld server should have only a few, > but very fast CPU cores, in order to ensure the best responsiveness. > The database server should preferably run on a physical server. That is very interesting. B

Re: [slurm-users] problem building pam_slurm_adopt

2021-07-14 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
I was missing pam-devel. Thank you! --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanh...@wright.edu On 7/14/21, 6:44 AM, "slurm-users on behalf of Ole Holm Nielsen"

Re: [slurm-users] problem building pam_slurm_adopt

2021-07-14 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
For CentOS, the list of all prerequisites for building Slurm is here: https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_installation#install-prerequisites /Ole On 7/14/21 11:51 AM, Sean Crosby wrote: Hi Mike, To build pam_slurm_adopt, you need the pam-devel package installed on the node you're buildin

Re: [slurm-users] problem building pam_slurm_adopt

2021-07-14 Thread Sean Crosby
Hi Mike, To build pam_slurm_adopt, you need the pam-devel package installed on the node you're building Slurm on. On RHEL, it's pam-devel, and Debian it's libpam-dev Once you have installed that, do ./configure again, and then you should be able to make the pam_slurm_adopt Sean __

Re: [slurm-users] Bug: incorrect output directory fails silently

2021-07-14 Thread Dries Boers
Dear all, I have now created a bug report at Bug 12017 - Incorrect output directory fails silently. Apparently, the bug has already been reported several times in the past. But it has still been in