Have you considered feeding HWLOC a simulated topology? It’s how I simulate different scenarios when testing OpenMPI and it’s pretty easy to do.
> On May 12, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Tapasya Patki <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > We are trying to set up the slurm simulator for research, and running into > the issue of not being able to disable hwloc detection. Once we launch the > slurmd daemon, it detects the ~actual~ node configuration instead of using > the simulated cluster NodeName parameter from the slurm.conf file. The > configure was set to use --enable-simulator, and we tried using the #undef > HAVE_HWLOC in config.h and playing with the FastSchedule parameter in > slurm.conf as well. > > None of those things worked. > > How do we get slurmd to read the simulated node type from the slurm.conf > file? Is there any other parameters that need to be explicitly set to use the > SLURM simulator? > > Thanks! > > Sincerely, > T
