I believe your slurm.conf is defining 4 nodes with a single logical processor each. You are then trying to allocate two CPUs on a single node with srun, which (according to your slurm.conf) you do not have.
You may want to consider `srun -n 2 hostname` and see where that lands you. Regards, Josh McSavaney Bit Flipper Rochester Institute of Technology On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Christopher Samuel <sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > > On 09/09/14 07:26, Michal Zielinski wrote: > > I have a small test cluster (node[1-4]) running slurm 14.03.0 setup with >> CR_CPU and no usage restrictions. Each node has just 1 CPU. >> > [...] > >> But, *srun -c 2 hostname* does not work, and it returns the above error. >> >> I have no idea why I can't dedicate 2 cores to a single job if I can >> dedicate each core individually to a job. >> > > What does "scontrol show node" say? > > cheers, > Chris > -- > Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator > VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative > Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 > http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci >
