Re: [slurm-users] SLURM reservations with MAGNETIC flag

2021-08-26 Thread Bas van der Vlies
The problem has been solved. We tested it with ’srun’ and that did not work the same is for ’salloc’ To make it work with these commands apply one of the solutions: 1. Add ‘defer’ to ScheduleParameters 2. srun --begin=now+1 sbatch works out of the box. Thanks to schedmd (Ben) for the solu

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM reservations with MAGNETIC flag

2021-04-07 Thread Bas van der Vlies
Still have this question. Sometime we have free nodes and users that are allowed to run in the MAGNETIC reservation are first scheduled on the free nodes instead of reservation nodes. Dit I forgot an option or is this the expected behavior? On 25/09/2020 16:47, Bas van der Vlies wrote: Ar

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM reservations with MAGNETIC flag

2020-09-25 Thread Bas van der Vlies
Thanks Troy, That is our intention also for course/training purposes if there are course days. regards -- Bas van der Vlies | Operations, Support & Development | SURFsara | Science Park 140 | 1098 XG Amsterdam | T +31 (0) 20 800 1300 | bas.vandervl...@surf.nl | www.surf.nl | > On 25 Se

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM reservations with MAGNETIC flag

2020-09-25 Thread Baer, Troy
I've been looking at it for classroom type reservations, but I ran into a bug where jobs that weren't eligible to access the reservation were being attracted to it anyway. That's supposed to be fixed in 20.02.6. See https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9593 for details. --Troy O

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM reservations with MAGNETIC flag

2020-09-25 Thread Bas van der Vlies
Are people using the MAGNETIC reservation flag? My question would be how? because to my it would be more useful if the reservation is tried first and then the free nodes. That is what I expected with the MAGNETIC flag. Bas van der Vlies | Operations, Support & Development | SURFsara | Science

[slurm-users] SLURM reservations with MAGNETIC flag

2020-09-24 Thread Bas van der Vlies
We have installed slurm 20.02.5 and I am trying to use this new reservation flag MAGNETIC: * https://slurm.schedmd.com/reservations.html From this page I understand that the job will land in the reservation even if we did not specify the reservation name. I tested it on our cluster setup but i