[slurm-dev] Re: MPI-Jobs on cluster - how to set batchhost

2017-10-10 Thread Selch, Brigitte (FIDF)
Hello, sorry for answering lateā€¦ Thank you to everybody! I will try to increase NFS performance. Best regards, Brigitte Selch Von: John Hearns [mailto:hear...@googlemail.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. September 2017 16:45 An: slurm-dev Betreff: [slurm-dev] Re: MPI-Jobs on cluster - how

[slurm-dev] Re: MPI-Jobs on cluster - how to set batchhost

2017-09-28 Thread John Hearns
Brigitte, are you able to tell us more about this scratch filesystem? You could arrange that the compute nodes mount it directly, so you get the performance you need. Thsi can be achieved by putting a routing node onto the cluster network. Or you could route throug the cluster head node. Also you

[slurm-dev] Re: MPI-Jobs on cluster - how to set batchhost

2017-09-28 Thread Selch, Brigitte (FIDF)
Hello, but then I'm not able to minimize the amount of core used on the headnode . The first running job uses all cores of my headnode, no next job could start ... I have experimented with OverSubscribe=FORCE, but this can only be defined for a whole partition not for one node only. I'm just a

[slurm-dev] Re: MPI-Jobs on cluster - how to set batchhost

2017-09-28 Thread John Hearns
Brigitte, thankyou. That makes sense. I guess that there is an NFS re-export of the scratch filesystem. I know this is not an answer to the problem at the moment, maybe you shoud look at Bee On Demand for the future. https://www.beegfs.io/wiki/BeeOND With the disclaimer that I have not implemente

[slurm-dev] Re: MPI-Jobs on cluster - how to set batchhost

2017-09-28 Thread Gennaro Oliva
Hi Brigitte, On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 02:51:53AM -0600, Selch, Brigitte (FIDF) wrote: > We have a cluster with one headnodes and x computenodes. > Scratch Filesystems are locally attached to the headnode, so the MPI task > which makes I/O should run on headnode. > But how can I determine, which n

[slurm-dev] Re: MPI-Jobs on cluster - how to set batchhost

2017-09-28 Thread Selch, Brigitte (FIDF)
-files and result-files, it would be good, to have this job on the headnode. Thank you! Von: John Hearns [mailto:hear...@googlemail.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. September 2017 11:04 An: slurm-dev Betreff: [slurm-dev] Re: MPI-Jobs on cluster - how to set batchhost Brigitte, I understand

[slurm-dev] Re: MPI-Jobs on cluster - how to set batchhost

2017-09-28 Thread John Hearns
Brigitte, I understand what you are trying to achieve. But may I ask - is there local storage n your compute nodes? You coudl run a job where the results are written to local storage, then transferred to your scratch filesystem at the end of the job. It is normal on HPC cluster to have the scrat