Indeed, this is accurate. We regularly add nodes on the fly (cloud based cluster).
All that is need is to get them all set in the slurm.conf, restart slurmctld and do 'scontrol reconfigure'
Brian Andrus On 12/13/2021 11:01 AM, Paul Brunk wrote:
Hi: Normally, adding a new node requires altering slurm.conf, and restarting slurmctld, and slurmd on each node. Restarting these daemons should not harm jobs and can be done while existing jobs are running. Wishing that I’d just listened this time, Paul Brunk, system administrator, Workstation Support Group GACRC (formerly RCC) EITS (formerly UCNS) University of Georgia -----Original Message----- From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> On Behalf Of Microbiome Studio Sent: Monday, December 13, 2021 12:55 To: slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com Subject: [slurm-users] Add new compute node without interruption [EXTERNAL SENDER - PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY] Dear, Firstly thanks slurm devloper for your amazing works. We would like to know if it is planned to add this feature: Adding new compute node without interruption Indeed actually we have to stop compution, declare new nodes and resume the computation. such feature would be really helpfull with the growth of cloud computation. Thanks Best regards
