Hi Chris and Lyn, Thanks for the idea, FUTURE with a placeholder solves my problem.
Best regards, Taras On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Chris Harwell <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW we use a placeholder node with state set to future to allow > submitting jobs to empty partitions: > > slurm.conf > ... > # A placeholder nodes to be included in any otherwise empty partitions to > avoid > # sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: More processors requested > than permitted > NodeName=placeholder procs=2048 state=future > PartitionName=2x4x1 Nodes=placeholder > > > Do take note of the race-condition where a bare srun job may fail if you > type srun and then update slurm.conf to have new nodes underneath it - this > can be avoided with salloc srun or sbatch. > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Lyn Gerner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Taras, >> >> Not sure what your use case is, but you might check out node states >> "CLOUD" and "FUTURE" in slurm.conf. >> >> Best, >> Lyn >> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Taras Shapovalov < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> Do you see any way to allow jobs submission to a queue without any >>> nodes? Slurm calculates a number of all CPUs in a queue and rejects a job >>> if it requests more then available, but how this constrain can be >>> eliminated? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Taras >>> >> >> >
