My case, gpu resource is defined in the job file #SBATCH --gres=gpu:2, so when I using srun, the CUDA_VISBLE_DEVICES=0,1 is already in the shell, I just want to set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=NoDevFiles in one specific srun, it can not work in the 17.11.7. But it work in 17.02
#!/bin/bash #SBATCH --job-name=test_obj #SBATCH --workdir=/home/hpcadmin/aaa #SBATCH --partition=compute #SBATCH --nodes=1 #SBATCH --mincpus=5 #SBATCH --gres=gpu:2 echo ==========no gres================== srun -N1 -n1 --gres=none --nodelist=c1 env|grep CUDA CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 -----Original Message----- From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> On Behalf Of Renfro, Michael Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 10:49 PM To: Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> Subject: Re: [slurm-users] [External] Re: serious bug about CUDA_VISBLE_DEVICES in the slurm 17.11.7 Chris’ method will set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES like you’re used to, and it will help keep you or your users from picking conflicting devices. My cgroup/GPU settings from slurm.conf: ===== [renfro@login ~]$ egrep -i '(cgroup|gpu)' /etc/slurm/slurm.conf | grep -v '^#' ProctrackType=proctrack/cgroup TaskPlugin=task/affinity,task/cgroup NodeName=gpunode[001-004] CoresPerSocket=14 RealMemory=126000 Sockets=2 ThreadsPerCore=1 Gres=gpu:2 PartitionName=gpu Default=NO MinNodes=1 DefaultTime=1-00:00:00 MaxTime=30-00:00:00 AllowGroups=ALL PriorityJobFactor=1 PriorityTier=1 DisableRootJobs=NO RootOnly=NO Hidden=NO Shared=NO GraceTime=0 PreemptMode=OFF ReqResv=NO DefMemPerCPU=4000 AllowAccounts=ALL AllowQos=ALL LLN=NO ExclusiveUser=NO OverSubscribe=NO OverTimeLimit=0 State=UP Nodes=gpunode[001-004] PartitionName=gpu-debug Default=NO MinNodes=1 MaxTime=00:30:00 AllowGroups=ALL PriorityJobFactor=2 PriorityTier=1 DisableRootJobs=NO RootOnly=NO Hidden=NO Shared=NO GraceTime=0 PreemptMode=OFF ReqResv=NO DefMemPerCPU=4000 AllowAccounts=ALL AllowQos=ALL LLN=NO ExclusiveUser=NO OverSubscribe=NO OverTimeLimit=0 State=UP Nodes=gpunode[001-004] PartitionName=gpu-interactive Default=NO MinNodes=1 MaxNodes=2 MaxTime=02:00:00 AllowGroups=ALL PriorityJobFactor=3 PriorityTier=1 DisableRootJobs=NO RootOnly=NO Hidden=NO Shared=NO GraceTime=0 PreemptMode=OFF ReqResv=NO DefMemPerCPU=4000 AllowAccounts=ALL AllowQos=ALL LLN=NO ExclusiveUser=NO OverSubscribe=NO OverTimeLimit=0 State=UP Nodes=gpunode[001-004] GresTypes=gpu,mic ===== Example (where srun is a function that runs “srun --pty $SHELL -I”), with no CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES on the submit host, but is correctly set on reserving GPUs: ===== [renfro@login ~]$ echo $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES [renfro@login ~]$ hpcshell --partition=gpu-interactive --gres=gpu:1 [renfro@gpunode003 ~]$ echo $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES 0 [renfro@login ~]$ hpcshell --partition=gpu-interactive --gres=gpu:2 [renfro@gpunode004 ~]$ echo $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES 0,1 ===== > On Aug 30, 2018, at 4:18 AM, Chaofeng Zhang <zhang...@lenovo.com> wrote: > > CUDA_VISBLE_DEVICES is used by many AI framework to determine which gpu to > use, like tensorflow. So this environment is critical to us. > > -----Original Message----- > From: slurm-users <slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com> On Behalf Of > Chris Samuel > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 4:42 PM > To: slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com > Subject: [External] Re: [slurm-users] serious bug about > CUDA_VISBLE_DEVICES in the slurm 17.11.7 > > On Thursday, 30 August 2018 6:38:08 PM AEST Chaofeng Zhang wrote: > >> The CUDA_VISBLE_DEVICES can't be set NoDevFiles in Slurm 17.11.7. >> This is worked when we use Slurm 17.02. > > You probably should be using cgroups instead to constrain access to GPUs. > Then it doesn't matter what you set CUDA_VISBLE_DEVICES to be as processes > will only be able to access what they requested. > > Hope that helps! > Chris > -- > Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC > > > > >
