So is there a way to ask SLURM to pick from a certain set of nodes without specifying the very nodes that I want to run on? -- Szilárd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > The documentation was out of date.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
