> NodeName=dgx03-10] RealMemory=2063937 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=2
CoresPerSocket=56 ThreadsPerCore=2 MemSpecLimit=30017 Gres=gpu:H100:8
Feature=location=local

Just in case, that line shows you are missing a bracket in the node name.
Are you *actually* missing the bracket?


On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM Lee via slurm-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the delayed response, SC25 interfered with my schedule.
>
> *Answers* :
> 1. Yes, dgx09 and all the others boot the same software images.
>
> 2. dgx09 and the other nodes mount a shared file system where Slurm is
> installed, so /cm/shared/apps/slurm/23.02.6/lib64/slurm/gpu_nvml.so is
> the same for every node.  I assume the library that is used for
> autodetection lives there.  I also found a shared library 
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvml_injection.so.1.0
> (within the software image).  I checked the md5sum and it is the same on
> both dgx09 and a non-broken node.
>
> 3. `scontrol show config` is the same on dgx09 and a non-broken DGX.
>
> 4. The only meaningful difference between `scontrol show node` for dgx09
> and dgx08 (a working node) is :
>
> <    Gres=gpu:*h100*:8(S:0-1)
> ---
> >    Gres=gpu:*H100*:8(S:0-1)
>
> 5. Yes, we've restarted slurmd and slurmctld several times, the behavior
> persists.  Of note, when I run `scontrol reconfigure`, the phantom
> allocated GPUs (see AllocTRES in original post) are cleared.
>
>
> *Important Update :*
> 1. We recently had another GPU tray replaced and now that DGX is
> experiencing the same behavior as dgx09.  I am more convinced that there is
> something subtle with how the hardware is being detected by Slurm.
>
> Best regards,
> Lee
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM Timony, Mick <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lee,
>>
>> I manage a BCM cluster as well. Does DGX09 have the same disk image and
>> libraries in place? Could the NVidia NVML library, used to auto-detect the
>> GPU's, be a diff version and causing the case differences?
>>
>> If you compare the output of scontrol show node dgx09 and another DGX
>> node, do they look the same? Does scontrol show config look different on
>> DGX09 and other nodes?
>>
>> Have you restarted the Slurm controllers (slurmctld) and restarted slurmd
>> on the compute nodes?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> --
>> Mick Timony
>> Senior DevOps Engineer
>> LASER, Longwood, & O2 Cluster Admin
>> Harvard Medical School
>> --
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Lee via slurm-users <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Friday, November 14, 2025 7:17 AM
>> *To:* John Hearns <[email protected]>
>> *Cc:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* [slurm-users] Re: Invalid generic resource (gres)
>> specification after RMA
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thank you for the suggestion.
>>
>> I ran lspci on dgx09 and a working DGX and the output was identical.
>>
>> nvidia-smi shows all 8 GPUs and looks the same as the output from a
>> working DGX :
>>
>> root@dgx09:~# nvidia-smi
>> Fri Nov 14 07:11:05 2025
>>
>> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> | NVIDIA-SMI 535.129.03             Driver Version: 535.129.03   CUDA
>> Version: 12.2     |
>>
>> |-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>> | GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id        Disp.A |
>> Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
>> | Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |         Memory-Usage |
>> GPU-Util  Compute M. |
>> |                                         |                      |
>>         MIG M. |
>>
>> |=========================================+======================+======================|
>> |   0  NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3          On  | 00000000:1B:00.0 Off |
>>              0 |
>> | N/A   29C    P0              69W / 700W |      4MiB / 81559MiB |
>>  0%      Default |
>> |                                         |                      |
>>       Disabled |
>>
>> +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>> |   1  NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3          On  | 00000000:43:00.0 Off |
>>              0 |
>> | N/A   30C    P0              71W / 700W |      4MiB / 81559MiB |
>>  0%      Default |
>> |                                         |                      |
>>       Disabled |
>>
>> +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>> |   2  NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3          On  | 00000000:52:00.0 Off |
>>              0 |
>> | N/A   33C    P0              71W / 700W |      4MiB / 81559MiB |
>>  0%      Default |
>> |                                         |                      |
>>       Disabled |
>>
>> +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>> |   3  NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3          On  | 00000000:61:00.0 Off |
>>              0 |
>> | N/A   31C    P0              73W / 700W |      4MiB / 81559MiB |
>>  0%      Default |
>> |                                         |                      |
>>       Disabled |
>>
>> +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>> |   4  NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3          On  | 00000000:9D:00.0 Off |
>>              0 |
>> | N/A   29C    P0              68W / 700W |      4MiB / 81559MiB |
>>  0%      Default |
>> |                                         |                      |
>>       Disabled |
>>
>> +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>> |   5  NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3          On  | 00000000:C3:00.0 Off |
>>              0 |
>> | N/A   28C    P0              69W / 700W |      4MiB / 81559MiB |
>>  0%      Default |
>> |                                         |                      |
>>       Disabled |
>>
>> +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>> |   6  NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3          On  | 00000000:D1:00.0 Off |
>>              0 |
>> | N/A   30C    P0              70W / 700W |      4MiB / 81559MiB |
>>  0%      Default |
>> |                                         |                      |
>>       Disabled |
>>
>> +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>> |   7  NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3          On  | 00000000:DF:00.0 Off |
>>              0 |
>> | N/A   32C    P0              69W / 700W |      4MiB / 81559MiB |
>>  0%      Default |
>> |                                         |                      |
>>       Disabled |
>>
>> +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>>
>>
>> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> | Processes:
>>                |
>> |  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name
>>    GPU Memory |
>> |        ID   ID
>>     Usage      |
>>
>> |=======================================================================================|
>> |  No running processes found
>>               |
>>
>> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Lee
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM John Hearns <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I work for AMD...
>> diagnostics I woud run are    lspci     nvidia-smi
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 at 19:18, Lee via slurm-users <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> I have a cluster that is managed by Base Command Manager (v10) and it has
>> several Nvidia DGXs.  dgx09 is a problem child.  The entire node was RMA'd
>> and now it no longer behaves the same as my other DGXs.  I think the below
>> symptoms are caused by a single underlying issue.
>>
>> *Symptoms : *
>> 1. When I look at our 8 non-MIG DGXs, via `scontrol show node=dgxXY |
>> grep Gres`, 7/8 DGXs report "Gres=gpu:*H100*:8(S:0-1)" while dgx09
>> reports "Gres=gpu:*h100*:8(S:0-1)"
>>
>> 2. When I submit a job to this node, I get :
>>
>> $ srun --reservation=g09_test --gres=gpu:2 --pty bash
>> srun: error: Unable to create step for job 105035: Invalid generic
>> resource (gres) specification
>>
>> ### No job is running on the node, yet AllocTRES shows consumed
>> resources...
>> $ scontrol show node=dgx09 | grep -i AllocTRES
>>    *AllocTRES=gres/gpu=2*
>>
>> ### dgx09 : /var/log/slurmd contains no information
>> ### slurmctld shows :
>> root@h01:# grep 105035 /var/log/slurmctld
>> [2025-11-13T07:44:56.380] sched: _slurm_rpc_allocate_resources
>> JobId=105035 NodeList=dgx09 usec=3420
>> [2025-11-13T07:44:56.482] _job_complete: JobId=105035 WTERMSIG 1
>> [2025-11-13T07:44:56.483] _job_complete: JobId=105035 done
>>
>>
>> *Configuration : *
>> 1. gres.conf :
>> # This section of this file was automatically generated by cmd. Do not
>> edit manually!
>> # BEGIN AUTOGENERATED SECTION -- DO NOT REMOVE
>> AutoDetect=NVML
>> NodeName=dgx[01,02] Name=gpu Type=1g.20gb Count=32 AutoDetect=NVML
>> NodeName=dgx[03-10] Name=gpu Type=h100 Count=8 AutoDetect=NVML
>> # END AUTOGENERATED SECTION   -- DO NOT REMOVE
>>
>> 2. grep NodeName slurm.conf
>> root@h01:# grep NodeName slurm.conf
>> NodeName=dgx[01,02] RealMemory=2063937 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=2
>> CoresPerSocket=56 ThreadsPerCore=2 MemSpecLimit=30017 Gres=gpu:1g.20gb:32
>> Feature=location=local
>> NodeName=dgx03-10] RealMemory=2063937 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=2
>> CoresPerSocket=56 ThreadsPerCore=2 MemSpecLimit=30017 Gres=gpu:H100:8
>> Feature=location=local
>>
>> 3. What slurmd detects on dgx09
>>
>> root@dgx09:~# slurmd -C
>> NodeName=dgx09 CPUs=224 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=2 CoresPerSocket=56
>> ThreadsPerCore=2 RealMemory=2063937
>> UpTime=8-00:39:10
>>
>> root@dgx09:~# slurmd -G
>> slurmd: gpu/nvml: _get_system_gpu_list_nvml: 8 GPU system device(s)
>> detected
>> slurmd: Gres Name=gpu Type=h100 Count=1 Index=0 ID=7696487
>> File=/dev/nvidia0 Cores=0-55 CoreCnt=224 Links=-1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
>> Flags=HAS_FILE,HAS_TYPE,ENV_NVML
>> slurmd: Gres Name=gpu Type=h100 Count=1 Index=1 ID=7696487
>> File=/dev/nvidia1 Cores=0-55 CoreCnt=224 Links=0,-1,0,0,0,0,0,0
>> Flags=HAS_FILE,HAS_TYPE,ENV_NVML
>> slurmd: Gres Name=gpu Type=h100 Count=1 Index=2 ID=7696487
>> File=/dev/nvidia2 Cores=0-55 CoreCnt=224 Links=0,0,-1,0,0,0,0,0
>> Flags=HAS_FILE,HAS_TYPE,ENV_NVML
>> slurmd: Gres Name=gpu Type=h100 Count=1 Index=3 ID=7696487
>> File=/dev/nvidia3 Cores=0-55 CoreCnt=224 Links=0,0,0,-1,0,0,0,0
>> Flags=HAS_FILE,HAS_TYPE,ENV_NVML
>> slurmd: Gres Name=gpu Type=h100 Count=1 Index=4 ID=7696487
>> File=/dev/nvidia4 Cores=56-111 CoreCnt=224 Links=0,0,0,0,-1,0,0,0
>> Flags=HAS_FILE,HAS_TYPE,ENV_NVML
>> slurmd: Gres Name=gpu Type=h100 Count=1 Index=5 ID=7696487
>> File=/dev/nvidia5 Cores=56-111 CoreCnt=224 Links=0,0,0,0,0,-1,0,0
>> Flags=HAS_FILE,HAS_TYPE,ENV_NVML
>> slurmd: Gres Name=gpu Type=h100 Count=1 Index=6 ID=7696487
>> File=/dev/nvidia6 Cores=56-111 CoreCnt=224 Links=0,0,0,0,0,0,-1,0
>> Flags=HAS_FILE,HAS_TYPE,ENV_NVML
>> slurmd: Gres Name=gpu Type=h100 Count=1 Index=7 ID=7696487
>> File=/dev/nvidia7 Cores=56-111 CoreCnt=224 Links=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-1
>> Flags=HAS_FILE,HAS_TYPE,ENV_NVML
>>
>>
>> *Questions : *
>> 1. As far as I can tell, dgx09 is identical to all my non-MIG DGX nodes
>> in terms of configuration and hardware.  Why does scontrol report it having
>> 'h100' with a lower case 'h' unlike the other dgxs which report with an
>> upper case 'H'?
>>
>> 2. Why is dgx09 not accepting GPU jobs and afterwards it artificially
>> thinks that there are GPUs allocated even though no jobs are on the node?
>>
>> 3. Are there additional tests / configurations that I can do to probe the
>> differences between dgx09 and all my other nodes?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Lee
>>
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