On Sunday, 10 February 2019 3:42:52 PM PST McCarthy, Adam wrote:
> We deal with sensitive data linked to projects with an alphanumeric ID. We
> would like to record this ID against the job submission for accounting,
> have it available as an environment variable for the job, and ideally
> reject the job if the project ID is not supplied.
>
> I have been considering writing a job submit plugin, but is there already a
> mechanism to associate a custom variable with a job?
How about just using the account name for that from the Slurm accounting
system? You can make that a requirement at submission time. It's also
exposed inside the job as ${SLURM_JOB_ACCOUNT}.
https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacctmgr.html
https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html
All the best,
Chris
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