> No, Slurm has to launch the batch script on compute node cores > ... SNIP... > Even with srun directly from a login node there's still processes that > have to run on the compute node and those need at least a core > (and some may need more, depending on the application).
Alright, understood. On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 12:47 AM Christopher Samuel via slurm-users < slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> wrote: > On 6/21/24 3:50 am, Arnuld via slurm-users wrote: > > > I have 3500+ GPU cores available. You mean each GPU job requires at > > least one CPU? Can't we run a job with just GPU without any CPUs? > > No, Slurm has to launch the batch script on compute node cores and it > then has the job of launching the users application that will run > something on the node that will access the GPU(s). > > Even with srun directly from a login node there's still processes that > have to run on the compute node and those need at least a core (and some > may need more, depending on the application). > > -- > Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Berkeley, CA, USA > > > -- > slurm-users mailing list -- slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com > To unsubscribe send an email to slurm-users-le...@lists.schedmd.com >
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