[slurm-dev] Slurm array scheduling question

2016-09-20 Thread Christopher benjamin Coffey
Hi, When slurm is considering jobs to schedule including job arrays out of all pending jobs, does slurm consider only the job array individually, or does it consider the child jobs behind them? I’m curious as I’ve to date limited the size of job arrays to 4000 to be proportional with our max q

[slurm-dev] Re: Slurm array scheduling question

2016-09-21 Thread Christopher benjamin Coffey
; some users that wanted to run huge array jobs). In order to prevent > individual users from hogging the entire cluster, we use the GrpTRESRunMins > limits (GrpCPURunMins if you're stuck on an older slurm version). > > -- > Janne Blomqvist > > ___

[slurm-dev] Slurmdb access outside of slurm commands

2016-10-18 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
Hi, We are building a webapp which will utilize data stored in the slurm msyql db. Is there anything wrong with adding a read only user that the app can use indirectly to cache statistics? I don’t see any issue with it, but I’m curious if it would get in the way of any normal slurm operations.

[slurm-dev] Re: set maximum CPU usage per user

2016-10-19 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
Hi Steven, If you are trying to restrict the cpus for a group, I believe you need to set the account value: sacctmgr modify account normal set Grpcpus=300 Best, Chris — Christopher Coffey High-Performance Computing Northern Arizona University 928-523-1167 On 10/18/16, 4:04 PM, "Steven Lo" wr

[slurm-dev] Re: Requirement of no firewall on compute nodes?

2016-10-27 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
Hi Ole, I don’t see a reason for a firewall to exist on a compute node, is it a requirement on your new cluster? If not, disable it. I don’t see Moe’s statement as saying that you can’t have a firewall, just that if there is one, you should open it up to allow all slurm communication. Best,

[slurm-dev] Power user sstat rights

2017-03-08 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
Hello, Is it possible to create a slurm account that has privileges to get sstat read access for all running jobs without giving modification privileges? Thank you. Best, Chris — Christopher Coffey High-Performance Computing Northern Arizona University 928-523-1167

[slurm-dev] Re: Power user sstat rights

2017-03-14 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
Hello, anyone know if this is possible? Thanks! ☺ Best, Chris — Christopher Coffey High-Performance Computing Northern Arizona University 928-523-1167 On 3/8/17, 9:19 AM, "Christopher Benjamin Coffey" wrote: Hello, Is it possible to create a slurm account that has pri

[slurm-dev] Re: Power user sstat rights

2017-04-17 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
Northern Arizona University 928-523-1167 On 3/14/17, 12:55 PM, "Christopher Benjamin Coffey" wrote: Hello, anyone know if this is possible? Thanks! ☺ Best, Chris — Christopher Coffey High-Performance Computing Northern Arizona University 92

[slurm-dev] Re: Power user sstat rights

2017-04-18 Thread Christopher Benjamin Coffey
_ On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Christopher Benjamin Coffey wrote: Hello all, In my attempt to create another “root” user, I’ve found that it is not possible to create another user with the ability to “sstat jobid” every