Sure, admin involvement can be a bottleneck, though. Is there any way that does not require admin involvement? -- Szilárd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Slurm User <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 The documentation was out of date.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 >> > >
