Thanks,
However, i'm on ubuntu, so when i installed w/ apt install slurm-llnl and
slurm-llnl-basic-plugins{-dev}i added the con_res entry. however, the controller can't find the select/con_res plugin. Is there something else i need to install to get the plugin to be recognized? On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 2:49 AM Thomas HAMEL <hm...@t-hamel.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > Slurm can have a behavior similar to the one you were used on SGE, it's > not the default but it's really commonly used. This is called Consumable > Resources in Slurm, you don't allocate full nodes but resources on the > node like cores or memory. It's activated in slurm.conf (after > restarting or reconfiguring the controller) : > > SelectType=select/cons_res > SelectTypeParameters=CR_Core_Memory > > https://slurm.schedmd.com/cons_res.html > > MPI serves another purpose that do not really fit you model. The > solution to your issue is Consumable Resources but you can take a look > at Job Arrays to group all jobs of your loop together. > > Regards, > > Thomas HAMEL > > > On 19/06/2018 23:33, Anson Abraham wrote: > > Hi, > > Relatively new to Slurm. I've been using Sun GridEngine mostly. > > I have a cluster of 3 machines each with 8 cores. In SGE i allocate > > the PE slots per machine, where if i submit 24 jobs it'll run all 24 > > jobs (b/c each job will use 1 core). > > however, if i submit job in Slurm through sbatch i can only get it to > > run 3 jobs at a time, even when i define the cpus_per_task. I was > > told to use openMPI for this. > > i'm not familiar w/ openMPI so i did an apt install of libopenmpi-dev. > > > > Do i have to loop through my job submission w/ mpirun > > and run an sbatch outside of it? > > Again, i'm still new to this, and w/ sge it was pretty straight fwd > > where all i had to do was: > > loop through files > > qsub -N {name of job} script.sh {filename}. > > > > not sure how would i do so here. > >
