Re: [slurm-users] sched

2019-12-13 Thread Steve Brasier
Thanks Alex - that is mostly how I understand it too. However my understanding from the docs (and the GCP example actually) is that the cluster isn't reconfigured in the sense of rewriting slurm.conf and restarting the daemons (i.e. how you might manually resize a cluster), it's just nodes are mark

Re: [slurm-users] sched

2019-12-12 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hey Steve, I think it doesn't just "power down" the nodes but deletes the instances. So then when you need a new node, it creates one, then provisions the config, then updates the slurm cluster config... That's how I understand it, but I haven't tried running it myself. Regards, Alex On Thu, De

[slurm-users] sched

2019-12-12 Thread Steve Brasier
Hi, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on the SchedMD-provided example here https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm-gcp for an autoscaling cluster on Google Cloud Plaform (GCP). I understand that slurm autoscaling uses the power saving interface to create/remove nodes and the example suspend.py and r