Re: [slurm-users] Conflicting --nodes and --nodelist

2021-06-03 Thread Diego Zuccato
Il 01/06/2021 15:37, Brian Andrus ha scritto: Tks Brian and Marcus. Seems I misinterpreted the docs. We need to target one of two identical nodes for performance comparisons between runs (students have to learn how to scale their jobs). I'll have to use a feature, since it seems requesting a

Re: [slurm-users] Conflicting --nodes and --nodelist

2021-06-01 Thread Brian Andrus
That is expected behavior as Marcus pointed out. I suspect you may be doing something like targeting one of two systems that each have a node-locked license for some software, or have some different specs. In this case, you may want to use the FEATURES option when defining those nodes and

Re: [slurm-users] Conflicting --nodes and --nodelist

2021-06-01 Thread Marcus Boden
Hi, as per https://slurm.schedmd.com/archive/slurm-18.08.5/sbatch.html#OPT_nodelist Request a specific list of hosts. The job will contain *all* of these hosts and possibly additional hosts as needed to satisfy resource requirements. So at least in the sbatch manpage it explicitly states

[slurm-users] Conflicting --nodes and --nodelist

2021-06-01 Thread Diego Zuccato
Hello all. I just found that if an user tries to specify a nodelist (say including 2 nodes) and --nodes=1, the job gets rejected with sbatch: error: invalid number of nodes (-N 2-1) The expected behaviour is that slurm schedules the job on the first node available from the list. I've found