With a second thought I realized that your requirement makes sense. You may have different parts of your jobs that have different requirements on the execution worker.
Let's wait for a reply from people @ elasticluster. On Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 9:34:43 AM UTC-5, Manuele Simi wrote: > > > It is unusual to have different flavors for the compute nodes. They are > workers for the same cluster and I expect they are interchangeable. Or at > least that's the rationale I use to create my clusters on the cloud. > > But probably the authors of elasticluster (and I'm not) have a better > answer. > > On Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 9:23:25 AM UTC-5, Orxan Shibliyev wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply. I just realized submitting a job with 1 node with >> slurm, launches compute001 although I did not specify the node. Seems like >> elasticluster does not intend to use frontend for computations. I don't >> know if should I ask this question in separate post but is it possible to >> launch the high-memory requiring job on frontend instead of compute node? >> If this is not possible, then how can I make two sections for compute nodes >> instead of sectioning compute and frontend? >> >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 1:13 PM Manuele Simi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes, it is possible. >>> >>> You need to define a cluster/<name>/<group> sections that override the >>> cluster/<name> section. >>> >>> In the following example I create specific configurations (with their >>> own flavor) for the nodes in the compute and frontend groups of a cluster >>> named "gridengine". >>> >>> # Cluster Section >>> *[cluster/gridengine]* >>> ... >>> *frontend_nodes=1* >>> *compute_nodes=3* >>> >>> # Compute node section >>> *[cluster/gridengine/compute]* >>> *flavor=n1-highcpu-2* >>> ... >>> >>> # Frontend node section >>> *[cluster/gridengine/frontend]* >>> *flavor=n1-standard-64* >>> ... >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 8:46 AM Orxan Shibliyev <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Is it possible to take different flavors for frontend and compute >>>> nodes? I want high memory machine for frontend and lower memory for >>>> computes. I use GCE machines. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "elasticluster" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticluster" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
