[slurm-users] Re: Building Slurm debian package vs building from source

2024-05-22 Thread Arnuld via slurm-users
> n fact I am more worried about how the users would benefit > from such a mixture of execution environments > ...SNIIP So what is an ideal setup? Keep the same .deb distro on all machines and use apt to install slurm on every machine? On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 10:20 AM Shunran Zhang < szh...@ngs

[slurm-users] Re: Building Slurm debian package vs building from source

2024-05-22 Thread Shunran Zhang via slurm-users
Hi Arnuld, What I would probably do is to build one for each distro and install them either directly into /usr/local or using deb package. The DEBIAN/control is used by apt to manage a couple of things, such as indexing so apt search shows what this package is for, which package it could rep

[slurm-users] Re: Building Slurm debian package vs building from source

2024-05-22 Thread Arnuld via slurm-users
> Not that I recommend it much, but you can build them for each > environment and install the ones needed in each. Oh cool, I will download the latest version 23.11.7 and build debian packages on every machine then > A simple example is when you have nodes with and without GPUs. > You can build

[slurm-users] Re: memory high water mark reporting

2024-05-22 Thread Cutts, Tim via slurm-users
Users can, of course always just wrap the job itself in time to record the maximum memory usage. Bit of a naïve approach but it does work. I agree the polling of current usage is not very satisfactory. Tim -- Tim Cutts Scientific Computing Platform Lead AstraZeneca Find out more about R&D I

[slurm-users] Re: Building Slurm debian package vs building from source

2024-05-22 Thread Brian Andrus via slurm-users
Not that I recommend it much, but you can build them for each environment and install the ones needed in each. A simple example is when you have nodes with and without GPUs. You can build slurmd packages without for those nodes and with for the ones that have them. Generally, so long as versi

[slurm-users] SLUG Call for Papers Deadline

2024-05-22 Thread Victoria Hobson via slurm-users
Slurm User Group (SLUG) 2024 is set for September 12-13 at the University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway. Registration information and a high-level schedule can be found here:https://slug24.splashthat.com/ The deadline to submit a presentation abstract is Friday, May 31st. We do not intend to extend thi

[slurm-users] Re: Building Slurm debian package vs building from source

2024-05-22 Thread Shunran Zhang via slurm-users
Hi Arnuld It is most important to keep the Slurm version the same across the board. As you are mentioning the "deb" package I am assuming all of your nodes are of a debian-based distribution that should be close enough for each other. However, Debian based distros are not as "binary compatible" a

[slurm-users] Building Slurm debian package vs building from source

2024-05-22 Thread Arnuld via slurm-users
We have several nodes, most of which have different Linux distributions (distro for short). Controller has a different distro as well. The only common thing between controller and all the does is that all of them ar x86_64. I can install Slurm using package manager on all the machines but this wil