An admin could set up a partition of the certain set of nodes and you can then use that partition.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Szilárd Páll <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 The documentation was out of date.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 >
