Re: [slurm-users] Transparently assign different walltime limit to a group of nodes ?

2018-08-13 Thread Cyrus Proctor
Jens, you are most welcome. I'll be curious to hear a followup after you have evaluated it. I myself have not used it in production but I thought it looked really cool. It is interesting to me for increasing overall resource utilization for partitions with transient "real time" demands. I

Re: [slurm-users] Transparently assign different walltime limit to a group of nodes ?

2018-08-13 Thread Jens Dreger
Hi Cyrus! On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 08:44:15AM -0500, Cyrus Proctor wrote: > Hi Jens, > > Check out https://slurm.schedmd.com/reservations.html specifically the " > Reservations Floating Through Time" section. In your case, set a walltime of > 14 > days for your partition that contains n[01-10].

Re: [slurm-users] Transparently assign different walltime limit to a group of nodes ?

2018-08-13 Thread Yair Yarom
Hi, We have a short partition to give a reasonable waiting time for shorter jobs. We use the job_submit/all_partitions plugin so if a user doesn't specify a partition, it will add all the partitions. The downside of the plugin is that if a job is too long for the short partition (or the job

Re: [slurm-users] Transparently assign different walltime limit to a group of nodes ?

2018-08-13 Thread Shenglong Wang
Please try to use SLURM Lua plugin, setup two partitions, one for n06-n10 and one for all nodes, inside SLURM Lua plugs, you can assign jobs to different partitions based on requested wall time. Best, Shenglong > On Aug 13, 2018, at 9:44 AM, Cyrus Proctor wrote: > > Hi Jens, > > Check out

Re: [slurm-users] Transparently assign different walltime limit to a group of nodes ?

2018-08-13 Thread Cyrus Proctor
Hi Jens, Check out https://slurm.schedmd.com/reservations.html specifically the " Reservations Floating Through Time" section. In your case, set a walltime of 14 days for your partition that contains n[01-10]. Then, create a floating reservation on node n[06-10] for n + 1 day where "n" is

Re: [slurm-users] Transparently assign different walltime limit to a group of nodes ?

2018-08-13 Thread Jens Dreger
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 03:28:49PM +0200, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi Jens, > > Jens Dreger writes: > > > Hi everyone! > > > > Is it possible to transparently assign different walltime limits > > to nodes without forcing users to specify partitions when submitting > > jobs? > > > > Example: let's

Re: [slurm-users] Transparently assign different walltime limit to a group of nodes ?

2018-08-13 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi Jens, Jens Dreger writes: > Hi everyone! > > Is it possible to transparently assign different walltime limits > to nodes without forcing users to specify partitions when submitting > jobs? > > Example: let's say I have 10 nodes. Nodes n01-n05 should be available > for jobs with a walltime up