Re: [slurm-users] How to checkout a slurmnode?

2021-11-12 Thread gilles
operator intervention is required in the process. Cheers, Gilles - Original Message - Hello! How best for a user to check out a slurm node? Unfortunately, command 'salloc' doesn't appear to meet this need. Command `salloc --nodelist some_node --time 3:00:00`

Re: [slurm-users] Exclude Slurm packages from the EPEL yum repository

2021-01-25 Thread gilles
this is the best option, eating own dog food should always be on the table: rename local SLURM packages (since SchedMD does not provide any RPMs). Regardless the technical aspects, and from a pure OSS philosophical point of view, asking EPEL to make such changes for one's self convenience seem

Re: [slurm-users] configless DNS entries

2020-06-10 Thread gilles
Brian, If you really want to use DNS SRV records to implement configless, then you are looking for bind views https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00851 In a nutshell, the DNS server will reply with a SRV record that depends on the IP/subnet of the client. Cheers, Gilles - Original Message

Re: [slurm-users] ssh-keys on computenodes?

2020-06-08 Thread gilles
Durai, A high quality MPI implementation uses SLURM (e.g. srun) to spawn MPI tasks/daemons, and hence does not require (passwordless) SSH between nodes. Cheers, Gilles - Original Message - Hi, we are setting up a slurm cluster and are at the stage of adding ssh keys of the

Re: [slurm-users] problems with slurm and openmpi

2019-03-14 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
the embedded one (since PMIx offers cross-version compatilibity support) Cheers, Gilles On 3/15/2019 12:24 PM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: thanks to all. the problem is that slurm's configure is not able to find the pmix includes configure:20846: checking for pmix installation conf

Re: [slurm-users] problems with slurm and openmpi

2019-03-12 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Cheers, Gilles On 3/13/2019 5:53 AM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: Hello, after trynig hard for over 10 days I am forced to write to the list. I am not able to have SLURM work with openmpi. Openmpi compiled binaries won't run on slurm, while all non openmpi progs run just fine under "s

Re: [slurm-users] Heterogeneous job one MPI_COMM_WORLD

2018-10-09 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Christopher, This looks like a SLURM issue and Open MPI is (currently) out of the picture. What if you srun --pack-group=0,1 hostname Do you get a similar error ? Cheers, Gilles On 10/10/2018 3:07 AM, Christopher Benjamin Coffey wrote: Hi, I have a user trying to setup a

Re: [slurm-users] slurm does not pass mca params toopenmpi?

2018-07-19 Thread gilles
Roger, is the home directory mounted at the same place regardless this is a frontend or a compute node ? I noted you --export=ALL, so there is a risk you export $HOME that is not reachable on the compute nodes. Cheers, Gilles - Original Message - > Hello Paul, > > P