Re: [slurm-users] Running multi jobs on one CPU in parallel

2021-09-14 Thread Williams, Gareth (IM, Black Mountain)
m User Community List Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Running multi jobs on one CPU in parallel Hi Karl, I haven't tested the MAX_TASKS_PER_NODE limits. According to slurm.conf *MaxTasksPerNode* Maximum number of tasks Slurm will allow a job step to spawn on a single node. The d

Re: [slurm-users] Running multi jobs on one CPU in parallel

2021-09-14 Thread Emre Brookes
Hi Karl, I haven't tested the MAX_TASKS_PER_NODE limits. According to slurm.conf *MaxTasksPerNode* Maximum number of tasks Slurm will allow a job step to spawn on a single node. The default *MaxTasksPerNode* is 512. May not exceed 65533 So I'd try setting that and "scontrol

Re: [slurm-users] Running multi jobs on one CPU in parallel

2021-09-14 Thread Karl Lovink
Hi Emre, MAX_TASKS_PER_NODE is set to 512. Does this means I cannot run more than 512 jobs in parallel on one node? Or can I change MAX_TASKS_PER_NODE to a higher value? And recompile slurm. Regards, Karl On 14/09/2021 21:47, Emre Brookes wrote: > *-O*, *--overcommit* >    Overcommit

Re: [slurm-users] Running multi jobs on one CPU in parallel

2021-09-14 Thread Emre Brookes
*-O*, *--overcommit* Overcommit resources. When applied to job allocation, only one CPU is allocated to the job per node and options used to specify the number of tasks per node, socket, core, etc. are ignored. When applied to job step allocations (the *srun* command when executed

[slurm-users] Running multi jobs on one CPU in parallel

2021-09-14 Thread Karl Lovink
Hello, I am in the process of setting up our SLURM environment. We want to use SLURM during our DDoS exercises for dispatching DDoS attack scripts. We need a lot of parallel running jobs on a total of 3 nodes.I can't get it to run more than 128 jobs simultaneously. There are 128 cpu's in the