Re: [slurm-users] Licenses: Remote vs Reservation

2022-12-01 Thread Richard Ems
Hi Brian, Thanks for your answer and sorry for my late reply. Yes, the cluster is not large, perhaps medium sized? What is considered for Slurm a small/medium/large cluster? I think I would go for the remote license method, to avoid what you mentioned about keeping the slurm.conf consistent on al

Re: [slurm-users] Licenses: Remote vs Reservation

2022-11-30 Thread Brian Andrus
Richard, If you don't have a large cluster, doing the local license method is actually feasible. The biggest issue is the efforts to ensure all the nodes have the same slurm.conf and then the traffic when they are all re-queried to report their status on a reconfigure. That said, I have had

[slurm-users] Licenses: Remote vs Reservation

2022-11-30 Thread Richard Ems
Hi all, I have to change our set up to be able to update the total number of available licenses due to users checking out licenses interactively. We now use Local Licenses, and could just regularly update slurm.conf and reconfigure, but I don't think that is the best solution. I see there are at