[slurm-dev] New design on schedmd site!

2016-11-15 Thread Lachlan Musicman
Hey Devs, The new design on the schedmd site is pretty - thanks! L. -- The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." - Grace Hopper

[slurm-dev] Re: Using slurm to control container images?

2016-11-15 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 16/11/16 12:23, Lachlan Musicman wrote: > Has anyone tried Shifter out and has there been any movement on this? I > presume the licensing issues remain. We've got both Shifter and Singularity set up at VLSCI for users. https://www.vlsci.org.au/documentation/running_jobs/shifter/

[slurm-dev] Re: Using slurm to control container images?

2016-11-15 Thread Jean Chassoul
I know the feeling, not just with container space (remember sun/solaris south park meme here please) stuff but in general in computing seeing through branding/promotion Dr. Kay have some quote about all been a pop culture. On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Lachlan Musicman

[slurm-dev] Re: Using slurm to control container images?

2016-11-15 Thread Lachlan Musicman
Yes, rkt was probably my preferred option. The researchers I work with aren't necessarily up to date with what's best practice wrt to this area, so docker is what they know best by virtue of branding/promotion. I don't mind which is used in a solution, if any. But yes, rkt would be my preference.

[slurm-dev] Re: Using slurm to control container images?

2016-11-15 Thread Jean Chassoul
Hi, Just wondering, have you consider rkt? I wonder if you run pip inside virtualenv's if that is the case the switch to a container with rkt seems "normal" instead of a more intrusive one all mighty process to rule everything that docker had the last time I check, its probably better now.

[slurm-dev] Using slurm to control container images?

2016-11-15 Thread Lachlan Musicman
Hola, We were looking for the ability to make jobs perfectly reproducible - while the system is set up with environment modules with the increasing number of package management tools - pip/conda; npm; CRAN/Bioconductor - and people building increasingly more complex software stacks, our users

[slurm-dev] Re: How to account how many cpus/gpus per node has been allocated to a specific job?

2016-11-15 Thread Daniel Letai
Re: [slurm-dev] Re: How to account how many cpus/gpus per node has been allocated to a specific job? You should be able to do this with profiling data: 1https://slurm.schedmd.com/hdf5_profile_user_guide.html Just use the jobacct_gather plugin. This is very probably an

[slurm-dev] Slurm 17.02.0-pre3: Abort job from job submission plugin

2016-11-15 Thread TO_Webmaster
Hi! I just played around a little with job submission plugins in Slurm 17.02.0-pre3. When I want to disallow a job during the job submission plugin by returning SLURM_ERROR, slurmctld segfaults. As a workaround, I added the attached fix and it seems to work now. Could anybody tell me whether