[slurm-users] Re: [INTERNET] Re: cpu distribution question

2024-06-08 Thread Alan Stange via slurm-users
> a node. > > I have recently raised a similar question here: > > https://support.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19236 > > And the buttom line was, that to "really have control over task placement > you really have to allocate the node in --exclusive manner".

[slurm-users] cpu distribution question

2024-06-07 Thread Alan Stange via slurm-users
All, I have a very simple slurm cluster.  It's just a single system with 2 sockets and 16 cores in each socket.  I would like to be able to submit a simple task into this cluster, and to have the cpus assigned to that task allocated round robin across the two sockets.   Everything I try is putting

[slurm-users] Running slurm on alternate ports

2024-05-20 Thread Alan Stange via slurm-users
Hello all, for testing purposes, we would like to run slurm on ports different from the default values.   No problems in setting this up.  But how does one tell srun/sbatch/etc what the different port numbers are?   I see no command line options to specify a port or an alternate configuration file

[slurm-users] Re: [INTERNET] Re: question on sbatch --prefer

2024-02-09 Thread Alan Stange via slurm-users
Chip Seraphine wrote: > Normally I'd address this by having an sbatch script allocate enough > resources for both jobs (specifying one node), and then kick off the helper > as a separate step (assuming I am understanding your issue correctly). > > > On 2/9/24, 9:57 AM,

[slurm-users] question on sbatch --prefer

2024-02-09 Thread Alan Stange via slurm-users
Hello all, I'm somewhat new to Slurm, but long time user of other batch systems.   Assume we have a simple cluster of uniform racks of systems with no special resources, and our jobs are all single cpu tasks. Lets say I have a long running job in the cluster, which needs to spawn a helper process