Hi Forum, I've been putting together an ARM cluster for fun/learning and I've been a bit lost about how to get OpenMPI and slurm to behave together.
I have installed the slurm-wlm package <https://packages.debian.org/buster/slurm-wlm>from the Debian apt search and compiled OpenMPI from source on my compute nodes. OpenMPI has been compiled with the option --with-slurm and the configure time log indicates openmpi has pmix v3 built in. I thought that would be enough for slurm and calling a job with "srun -n 4 -N1 executable" (with slurm.conf having MpiDefault=pmix_v3) would be enough. Not the case, unfortunately as slurm doesn't have any idea what pmix_v3 means without being compiled against it I guess. I have also attempted to compile openmpi from source with the --with-pmi option but the slurm-wlm package doesn't install any of the libraries/headers (pmi.h pmi2.h pmix.h etc). Neither does any of the slurm-llnl develop packages, so I'm at a loss of what to do here. A few notes: OpenMPI is working across my compute nodes. I'm able to ssh to my compute node and start a job manually with mpirun that executes successfully across the nodes. My slurmctld and slurmd daemons work for single thread resource allocation (and presumably OpenMP multithreading, though I haven't tested this). Beyond compiling slurm from source (assuming this installs the pmi headers that I can use to build openmpi), which I have tried with no luck on my devices, is there a way to get slurm and openmpi to behave together using the precompiled package slurm-wlm? Thank you, ~Avery Grieve They/Them/Theirs please! University of Michigan
