Re: [slurm-users] slurmdbd.service gives: Unable to initialize auth/munge authentication plugin

2019-12-15 Thread William Brown
That will depend where the rest of the cluster is. If they were in the VPN such as inside a corporate network that you used the VPN to connect to, they might. But if they are elsewhere in your home network, they will not. I think some VPN clients can be configured to be quite open but usually

Re: [slurm-users] Question about memory allocation

2019-12-15 Thread Kraus, Sebastian
Sorry Mahmood, 10 GB per node is requested not 200 GB per node. For all nodes this counts in total to 40 GB as you request 4 nodes. The number of tasks per node does not matter for this limit. Best ;-) Sebastian Sebastian Kraus Team IT am Institut für Chemie Gebäude C, Straße des 17. Juni

Re: [slurm-users] Question about memory allocation

2019-12-15 Thread Mahmood Naderan
>your job will be only runnable on nodes that offer at least 200 GB main memory (sum of memory on all sockets/cpu of >the node) But according to the manual *--mem*=<*size[units]*> Specify the real memory required per node. so, with #SBATCH --mem=10GB #SBATCH --nodes=4 #SBATCH

Re: [slurm-users] Question about memory allocation

2019-12-15 Thread Mahmood Naderan
>No, this indicates the amount of residual/real memory as reqeusted per node. Your job will be only runnable on nodes >that offer at least 200 GB main memory (sum of memory on all sockets/cpu of the node). Please also have a closer look >at man sbatch. Thanks. Regarding the status of the nodes,

Re: [slurm-users] Question about memory allocation

2019-12-15 Thread Kraus, Sebastian
Hi Mahmood, >> will it reserve (looks for) 200GB of memory for the job? Or this is the hard >> limit of the memory required by job? No, this indicates the amount of residual/real memory as reqeusted per node. Your job will be only runnable on nodes that offer at least 200 GB main memory

Re: [slurm-users] Question about memory allocation

2019-12-15 Thread Mahmood Naderan
A follow up to the previous email. Current state of memory of nodes are RealMemory=64259 AllocMem=1024 FreeMem=38620 Sockets=32 Boards=1 RealMemory=120705 AllocMem=1024 FreeMem=309 Sockets=32 Boards=1 RealMemory=64259 AllocMem=1024 FreeMem=59334 Sockets=32 Boards=1 RealMemory=64259

[slurm-users] Question about memory allocation

2019-12-15 Thread Mahmood Naderan
Hi, If I write #SBATCH --mem=10GB #SBATCH --nodes=4 #SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=5 will it reserve (looks for) 200GB of memory for the job? Or this is the hard limit of the memory required by job? Regards, Mahmood

Re: [slurm-users] srun: job steps and generic resources

2019-12-15 Thread Kraus, Sebastian
Dear Brian, thanks for the detailed explanation. Shame on me, that I did not pass by the relevant description of the SallocDefaultCommand as filed at the mid of the slurm.conf man page. @slurm developers: Maybe, it would be a good idea to link this paragraph directly into the salloc man page

[slurm-users] slurmdbd.service gives: Unable to initialize auth/munge authentication plugin

2019-12-15 Thread Dean Schulze
My slurm controller was running this week on a virtual machine on my laptop. When I try to use it while logged in on the VPN I get this error from the slurmdbd.service: Unable to initialize auth/munge authentication plugin Could this be due to having a different IP address since I'm on the VPN?

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM with OpenMPI

2019-12-15 Thread Riebs, Andy
Agreed -- I do this frequently. (Be sure you've exported those variables, though!) Andy -Original Message- From: slurm-users [mailto:slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com] On Behalf Of Paul Edmon Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2019 2:05 PM To: slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com Subject: Re:

Re: [slurm-users] SLURM with OpenMPI

2019-12-15 Thread Paul Edmon
Yes they should be. -Paul Edmon- On 12/15/2019 10:28 AM, Raymond Muno wrote: We are new to SLURM, migrating over from SGE. When launching OpenMPI jobs (version 4.0.2 in this case) via srun, are the MCA parameters followed when they are set via environmental variables, e.g. OMPI_MCA_param?