Hello almon, Did you look the NodeName/Feature list functionality with sbatch —constraints before choosing GRES?
Best regards, Sebastien VIGNERON > Le 18 mai 2018 à 00:02, Almon Gem Otanes <almond...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Hi everyone, > Is there a way to add GRES/features/attributes(not sure which is the correct > term) to partitions? I'm trying to port from SGE to SLURM. Our current setup > have queues(partitions) that refer to physical systems. The binaries we want > to execute are just scripts that don't need to run on the partitions so in > this case, we use the nodes as execution hosts. I want to be able to tell > sbatch I want to submit to any partition that have a set of custom > GRES/features/attributes. For example, a partition with a BERT(bit error rate > tester) with loopback enabled. So my GRES would look something like > bert:true,loopback=true. > > I do have a semi-solution but I'm not sure if there is a better solution with > a SLURM feature I'm not familiar with. My solution is to use the job_submit > plugin to redirect the GRES that is meant for the nodes to be used as filters > for the partition. My next problem is how to tell the scheduler that it can > only submit to the list of partitions I indicate. The partition job submit > plugin only shows how to set the partition to a specific one. > > In short, my questions are: > 1. How to apply custom GRES to partitions? > 2. Is there a way using the job_submit plugin to limit the partitions the > scheduler can submit to from a list that I indicate? > > Thanks in advance, > Almon Otanes