Having tried just not even defining any partitions you hit this this <https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/master/src/common/node_conf.c#L383>check which seems to ensure you can't create a cluster with no nodes. Is it possible to create a control node without any compute nodes, e.g. as part of a staged deployment?
http://stackhpc.com/ Please note I work Tuesday to Friday. On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 10:56, Steve Brasier <ste...@stackhpc.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > According to the relevant manpage > <https://slurm.schedmd.com/archive/slurm-20.02.5/slurm.conf.html> it's > possible to define an empty partition using "Nodes= ". > > However this doesn't seem to work (slurm 20.2.05): > > [centos@testohpc-login-0 ~]$ grep -n Partition /etc/slurm/slurm.conf > 72:PriorityWeightPartition=1000 > 105:PartitionName=compute Default=YES MaxTime=86400 State=UP Nodes= > > (note there is a space after that final "=" but I've tried both with and > without) > > [centos@testohpc-login-0 ~]$ sinfo > sinfo: error: Parse error in file /etc/slurm/slurm.conf line 105: " Nodes= > " > sinfo: fatal: Unable to process configuration file > > Is this a bug, or am I doing it wrong? > > thanks for any suggestions > > Steve > > http://stackhpc.com/ > Please note I work Tuesday to Friday. >
