> I'm just undecided because slurm itself needs a bit more than just install the client package and you have immediate advantage without more administration.
if I may: maybe gnu parallel would be a good suggestion, as well? On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 7:21 AM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > Am Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 05:11:41PM +0000 schrieb Tony Travis: > > > > Sorry, the attached screenshot with your picture on it is what I read, > but I > > didn't notice that it was the upstream README.md. > > Ohhhh, dear, if I would have written all the stuff where Github > instances put my picture on it, I would probably need a couple of life > times. ;-P > > > > BTW, should we take the message that it makes sense to suggest > > > slurm-client for canu from your observation? > > > > No, because "canu" works without "Slurm": > > Yes, it works without slurm. If it would really need slurm we would use > Recommends or even Depends. Suggests means that it might work better > under some circumstances. I'm just undecided because slurm itself needs > a bit more than just install the client package and you have immediate > advantage without more administration. > > > Our problem was that the saved > > state of the Slurm controller was incompatible with the upgraded version > of > > Slurm. I'm not sure how that happened, but this is not my server and I > was > > simply helping to diagnose why "canu" crashed. > > > > Unfortunately, I didn't save the error messages, but I saw that "canu" > was > > reporting problems submitting a job to "Slurm". I installed "canu" in a > > Bioconda env so that my colleague could continue his work, then I removed > > the stale job-state information and restarted "Slurm". > > > > At some point, I'll reinstall "canu" from the Med-Bio package, but at > > present I don't want to disrupt the work on someone else's server. I'll > use > > the Ubuntu Bug-Tracker to report any issues after reinstalling. > > Thanks a lot for the precise report > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > >
