Hi You may have to read --nodelist in the sbatch manual https://slurm.schedmd.com/sbatch.html
On Mon, May 7, 2018, 21:29 Andreas Hilboll <hilboll+sl...@uni-bremen.de> wrote: > Dear SLURM experts, > > we have a cluster of 56 nodes with 28 cores each. Is it possible > to > limit the number of jobs of a certain name which concurrently run > on > one node, without blocking the node for other jobs? > > For example, when I do > > for filename in runtimes/*/jobscript.sh; do > sbatch -J iojob -n 1 $filename > done > > How can I assure that only one of these jobs runs per node? The > jobs > are very lightweight computationally and only use 1 core each, but > since they are rather heavy on the I/O side, I'd like to ensure > that > when a job runs, it doesn't have to share the available I/O > bandwidth > with other jobs. (This would actually work since usually our > other > jobs are not I/O intensive.) > > From reading the manpage, I couldn't figure out how to do this. > > > Sunny greetings, > Andreas > >
