Great - what can I do with srun to accomplish the same goal (which I
think will launch n processes on the node)?
Thanks,
~Mike C.
-----Original Message-----
From: Moe Jette [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 4:58 PM
To: slurm-dev; Michael Colonno
Subject: Re: [slurm-dev] config for commercial SMP code
The batch script only runs once on the job's first allocated node. Just run
sbatch -n4 /script/to/run
Quoting Michael Colonno <[email protected]>:
> SLURM gurus ~
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> I have what I hope is a simple sbatch configuration issue.
> I have a commercial tool (i.e. one for which I don’t have source code)
> that I am configuring to run through SLURM. The tool support
> specifying the number of cores to be used on a system. I need SLURM to
> track and manage the number of cores in use but I need to launch just
> one process on the executing node and feed in the number of cores
> allocated to the tool’s command line syntax (already done this
> parsing). I’ve tried many combinations of sbatch flags to make this
> happen but I always get the error :
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> sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Requested node
> configuration is not available
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> My submission syntax (e.g.):
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> sbatch -n4 --tasks-per-node=1 --nodes=1 /script/to/run
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> My node descriptions in slurm.conf are basic. What’s the
> correct syntax to, in pseudo-code: “allocate n cores but launch just
> one process on the executing node”.
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> Thanks,
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> ~Mike C.
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