The documentation was out of date. That behaviour was too confusing for many users.
Quoting Szilárd Páll <[email protected]>:
Hi, If I try to pass an explicit node list to SLURM which contains a larger number of nodes than requested, I get an error: sbatch -N 1 --nodelist=nid0[1543-1545] test.sh sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Node count specification invalid This contradicts with the man pages: "If you specify a maximum node count and the host list contains more nodes, the extra node names will be silently ignored." Do I interpret things correctly and this is simply a bug? Cheers, -- Szilárd
-- Morris "Moe" Jette CTO, SchedMD LLC Commercial Slurm Development and Support
