Re: [slurm-users] Documentation for creating a login node for a SLURM cluster

2018-10-15 Thread Lachlan Musicman
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 17:59, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: > Lachlan Musicman writes: > > > There's one thing that no one seems to have mentioned - I think you will > > need to list it as an AllocNode in the Partition that you want it to be > > able to allocate jobs to. > > It is a good idea if you

Re: [slurm-users] Documentation for creating a login node for a SLURM cluster

2018-10-15 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Lachlan Musicman writes: > There's one thing that no one seems to have mentioned - I think you will > need to list it as an AllocNode in the Partition that you want it to be > able to allocate jobs to. It is a good idea if you want to limit which hosts you are allowed to submit jobs from, but it

Re: [slurm-users] Documentation for creating a login node for a SLURM cluster

2018-10-14 Thread Lachlan Musicman
There's one thing that no one seems to have mentioned - I think you will need to list it as an AllocNode in the Partition that you want it to be able to allocate jobs to. https://slurm.schedmd.com/slurm.conf.html#OPT_AllocNodes Eg in my conf we have one partition that looks like PartitionName=re

Re: [slurm-users] Documentation for creating a login node for a SLURM cluster

2018-10-12 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
In addition, fwiw, this login node will have a second network connection of course for campus with firewall setup to only allow ssh (and other essential) from campus. Also you may consider having some script developed to prevent folks from abusing the login node instead of using slurm for their

Re: [slurm-users] Documentation for creating a login node for a SLURM cluster

2018-10-12 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Aravindh Sampathkumar writes: > I built a simple 2 node SLURM cluster for the first time, and I'm able > to run jobs on the lone compute node from the node that runs Slurmctl.However, > I'd like to setup a "login node" which only allows users to > submit jobs to the SLURM cluster and not act as S

Re: [slurm-users] Documentation for creating a login node for a SLURM cluster

2018-10-12 Thread Michael Gutteridge
I'm unaware of specific docs, but I tend to think of these simply as daemon nodes that aren't listed in slurm.conf. We use Ubuntu and the packages we install are munge, slurm-wlm, and slurm-client (which drags in libslurmXX and slurm-wlm-basic-plugins). Then the setup is very similar to slurmd no

[slurm-users] Documentation for creating a login node for a SLURM cluster

2018-10-12 Thread Aravindh Sampathkumar
Hello. I built a simple 2 node SLURM cluster for the first time, and I'm able to run jobs on the lone compute node from the node that runs Slurmctl.However, I'd like to setup a "login node" which only allows users to submit jobs to the SLURM cluster and not act as SLURM controller or as a compute