Hi Eric
Did you try starting the slurmctl by itself with slurmctl -Dcv to see what errors it gives ? -jfk On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Eric F. Alemany <ealem...@stanford.edu> wrote: > HI John, > > Each time i enabled/started slurmctld the error was that the > slurmctld.service could not be find or did not exist when in fact it > existed in the correct directory /etc/systemd/system. > Same with slurmdbd.service. > > ____________________________________________________________ > _________________________________________ > > * Eric F. Alemany * > *System Administrator for Research* > > Division of Radiation & Cancer Biology > Department of Radiation Oncology > > Stanford University School of Medicine > Stanford, California 94305 > > Tel:1-650-498-7969 No Texting > Fax:1-650-723-7382 > > > > On Apr 25, 2018, at 2:41 PM, John Kelly <john.ke...@broadcom.com> wrote: > > Hi Eric > > I installed on ubuntu 14.04 and I did use the tar ball. What error did > you get ? > > -jfk > > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Eric F. Alemany <ealem...@stanford.edu> > wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> Thank you for your reply. >> >> I followed the steps on the same site and am careful with all the steps >> but i still cannot make it work. Some people say that Ubuntu has packages >> for SLURM and i dont have to deal with downloading tar ball and make sure >> that all the files go to the right place. >> >> Thanks >> ____________________________________________________________ >> _________________________________________ >> >> * Eric F. Alemany * >> *System Administrator for Research* >> >> Division of Radiation & Cancer Biology >> Department of Radiation Oncology >> >> Stanford University School of Medicine >> Stanford, California 94305 >> >> Tel:1-650-498-7969 No Texting >> Fax:1-650-723-7382 >> >> >> >> On Apr 25, 2018, at 1:52 PM, John Kelly <john.ke...@broadcom.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Eric >> >> I found this site very useful >> >> https://github.com/mknoxnv/ubuntu-slurm >> >> -jfk >> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:01 PM, evan clark <eclar...@fau.edu> wrote: >> >>> I would also recommend this guide, it helped quite a bit when getting my >>> personal cluster online. https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/SLURM >>> >>> One recommendation is to have ntp, shared storage for home directories, >>> and LDAP so user ids are synced across machines. >>> >>> Eric F. Alemany <ealem...@stanford.edu> >>> April 25, 2018 3:27 PM >>> Greetings, >>> >>> New to the forum and new to SLURM. I have 5 servers. 1 can be the >>> master/headnode and 4 can be the compute node. My goal is to help a >>> post-doc run “jobs” on the cluster and utilizing all the CPU’s and RAM from >>> the 4 compute nodes. The post-doc runs radiation Monte Carlo simulation, >>> RNA/DNA sequencing, DESEQ..etc >>> I understand this is a very general question and i am sure there is a >>> lot to take in consideration but if someone could guide through simple >>> steps on how to install and configure SLURM on ubuntu for 1 master/headnode >>> and 4 compute nodes I would be very grateful. >>> Thank you for your time and help. >>> >>> Best, >>> Eric >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> _________________________________________ >>> >>> * Eric F. Alemany * >>> *System Administrator for Research* >>> >>> Division of Radiation & Cancer Biology >>> Department of Radiation Oncology >>> >>> Stanford University School of Medicine >>> Stanford, California 94305 >>> >>> Tel:1-650-498-7969 No Texting >>> Fax:1-650-723-7382 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >