It appears you found a bug in the slurm.spec not adding the new "launch" plugins to the plugin rpm. This has been fixed along with adding the job_acct_energy plugins as well. It will be in the next 2.5 release, and is available on github now.
Thanks for reporting, Danny On 11/19/2012 10:24 AM, Mario Kadastik wrote: > Hi, > > we're setting up a test instance of slurm. So far I've gotten as far as slurm > control node and one worker node configured. I'm able to use the slurm-torque > interface commands to send a job that actually does things on the workernode, > but the output is kept at the workernode as we do not use shared home > directories. For some reason I cannot run srun directly: > > [mario@slurm-1 ~]$ srun /bin/hostname > srun: error: Couldn't find the specified plugin name for launch/slurm looking > at all files > srun: error: cannot find launch plugin for launch/slurm > srun: error: cannot create launch context for launch/slurm > Segmentation fault > [mario@slurm-1 ~]$ > > the slurm I built is built from slurm-2.5.0-0.rc1.tar.bz2 using rpmbuild -ta > slurm-2.5.0-0.rc1.tar.bz2. So far on the headnode I installed: > [root@slurm-1 ~]# rpm -qa|grep slurm > slurm-plugins-2.5.0-0.rc1.el6.x86_64 > slurm-torque-2.5.0-0.rc1.el6.x86_64 > slurm-sjstat-2.5.0-0.rc1.el6.x86_64 > slurm-2.5.0-0.rc1.el6.x86_64 > slurm-sjobexit-2.5.0-0.rc1.el6.x86_64 > slurm-munge-2.5.0-0.rc1.el6.x86_64 > slurm-perlapi-2.5.0-0.rc1.el6.x86_64 > > haven't set up accounting yet so those packages weren't installed. > > The srun peculiarity somewhat disturbs me, but as qrun worked i'm not 100% > sure what's going on. However I was curious if slurm supports input / output > stageing using scp or similar? Our current cluster is based on torque, which > uses scp to stage in input files and stage out output files. Most of the > tools used for submission by users as well as through grid assume the PBS > staging code so my interest is wether this is possible to be set up as well? > Should this be done through prologue/epilogue scripts or is there some native > way to do it? > > Thanks, > > Mario Kadastik, PhD > Researcher > > --- > "Physics is like sex, sure it may have practical reasons, but that's not > why we do it" > -- Richard P. Feynman
