Hi Lisa, cons_tres is part of Slurm 19.05 and higher. As you are using Slurm 18.08, it won't be there. The select plugin for 18.05 is cons_res.
Is there a reason why you're using an old Slurm? Sean -- Sean Crosby | Senior DevOpsHPC Engineer and HPC Team Lead Research Computing Services | Business Services The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 05:00, Lisa Kay Weihl <lwe...@bgsu.edu> wrote: > *UoM notice: External email. Be cautious of links, attachments, or > impersonation attempts.* > ------------------------------ > I have a standalone server with 4 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. The purpose is to > serve as a computer server for data science jobs. My department chair wants > a job scheduler on it. I have installed SLURM (18.08.9). That works just > fine in a basic configuration when I attempt to add Gres_Types gpu and then > add Gres:gpu:4 to the end of the node description: > > NodeName=cs-datasci CPUs=24 RealMemory=385405 Sockets=2 CoresPerSocket=6 > ThreadsPerCore=2 State=UNKNOWN Gres=gpu:4 > > and then try to restart slurmd I get an error that it cannot find the > plugin > > slurmd: error: Couldn't find the specified plugin name for > select/cons_tres looking at all files > > slurmd: error: cannot find select plugin for select/cons_tres > > slurmd: fatal: Can't find plugin for select/cons_tres > > The system was prebuilt by AdvancedHPC with CentOS 7 and CUDA 8.0 > > I usually keep notes when I'm installing things but in this case I wasn't > jotting things down as I went. I think I started with the instructions on > this page: https://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html and went with > the usual ./configure, make, make install. > > I have a feeling maybe something did not work and I switched to the rpm > packages based on some other web pages I saw because if I do a yum list > installed | grep slurm I see a lot of pacakages. The problem is I was > interrupted with other tasks and my memory was somewhat rusty when I came > back to this. > > When I went looking for this error I saw there were some issues with the > newest SLURM and CUDA 10.2 but I didn't think that should be an issue > because I was at CUDA 8.0. Just in case I backed down to SLURM 18. > > I'm willing to start all over if anyone thinks cleaning up and rebuilding > will help that. I do see libraries in /etc/lib64/slurm but I also see 2 > files in /usr/local/lib/slurm/src so I'm not sure if that's left over from > trying to install from source. All the daemons are in /usr/sbin and user > commands in /usr/bin > > I'm a newbie at this and very frustrated. Can anyone help? > > *************************************************************** > > Lisa Weihl *Systems Administrator* > > > *Computer Science, Bowling Green State University *Tel: (419) 372-0116 > | Fax: (419) 372-8061 > lwe...@bgsu.edu > www.bgsu.edu​ >