Re: [slurm-users] gres.conf and select/cons_res plugin

2022-09-13 Thread Kamil Wilczek
Hello, unfortunately imho Slurm's documentation is "scattered". What I mean is that a single subject is not defined in one place but described in several places. It is so for cons_tres. Among others cons_tres allows for individual allocation of GPUs and other TRES, provides additional submit opt

[slurm-users] gres.conf and select/cons_res plugin

2022-09-13 Thread Patrick Goetz
I think reading the documentation is making me more confused; maybe this has to do with version changes. My current slurm cluster is using version 17.x Looking at the man page for gres.conf (https://slurm.schedmd.com/gres.conf.html) I see this: NOTE: Slurm support for gres/[mps|shard] requ

[slurm-users] resource selection algorithm cons_tres ?

2022-09-13 Thread Patrick Goetz
I'm working on an inherited Slurm cluster, and was reading through the Slurm documentation when I found this in the Easy Configurator section (https://slurm.schedmd.com/configurator.easy.html) - cons_tres: Allocate individual processors, memory, GPUs, and other trackable resources - Cons_re

[slurm-users] what's the simplest way to set the site_factor for all jobs?

2022-09-13 Thread byron
I want to allow users to lower the priority of their jobs to allow other peoples jobs to go first and am thinking the easiest way would be for them to use the sbatch nice option. However all of ours jobs currently run with a priorty of 1 as all of the priority weights are set to zero meaning setti