Re: [slurm-users] Submitting jobs via SystemD

2021-09-15 Thread Sid Young
Whats wrong with just using the tools as is? Sid Young On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 5:54 AM Ondrej Valousek wrote: > Hi list, > I am wondering if there is a plugin allowing to submit jobs via SystemD > (I.e. using systemd-run) on exec nodes. > > I have actually modified SGE sources to offer this

Re: [slurm-users] estimate queue time using 'sbatch --test-only'

2021-09-15 Thread Feng Li
Hi Machael, Thanks for your quick response. All factors you mentioned look valid to me. For 1, a similar situation can also happen when there is a queued large job that just failed. I feel it can be bad if the backfill scheduler is enabled by default, but the '-test-only' estimation doesn't

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm User Group Meeting (SLUG'21) will be held on YouTube on September 21st

2021-09-15 Thread Tim Wickberg
One more reminder that the Slurm User Group Meeting (SLUG'21) will be held on Tuesday, streaming through YouTube Live. The agenda's been updated with the titles for each of the five sessions, and links have been added to the individual streams: https://slurm.schedmd.com/slurm_ug_agenda.html

Re: [slurm-users] estimate queue time using 'sbatch --test-only'

2021-09-15 Thread Renfro, Michael
I can imagine at least the following causing differences in the estimated time and the actual start time: * If running users have overestimated their job times, and their jobs finish earlier than expected, the original estimate will be high. * If another user's job submission gets

[slurm-users] estimate queue time using 'sbatch --test-only'

2021-09-15 Thread Feng Li
Hi and thanks for reading this! I am trying to estimate the queue time of a job of a certain size and walltime limit. I am doing this because our project considers multiple HPC resources and needs estimated queue time information to decide where to actually submit the job. >From the man page

[slurm-users] Submitting jobs via SystemD

2021-09-15 Thread Ondrej Valousek
Hi list, I am wondering if there is a plugin allowing to submit jobs via SystemD (I.e. using systemd-run) on exec nodes. I have actually modified SGE sources to offer this option (available at https://github.com/daimh/sge) and it works quite well. The advantages are: - we let systemd to track

[slurm-users] QOS, partition and user mapping

2021-09-15 Thread Pankaj Dorlikar
Hi, How to bind group of users to a particular partition. I have followed this : Given allowgroup to partition in slurm.conf, but the users from the group are able to submit jobs to other partitions. Second option is : Created QOS without any parameter, and given AllowQOS to

[slurm-users] About PriorityType

2021-09-15 Thread Pavel Vashchenkov
Hi all Do I understand correctly that keyword "PriorityType=priority/basic" means that a job which is the first in queue will not let other jobs to start before it? And this keyword is enough to switch on this mode? The problem is following. I have a job in queue which does not start long