You are correct and there are data structures used to work with node
name expressions s which would not function with non-numeric values.
Quoting Anna Kostikova <[email protected]>:
Dear list,
Am I correct assuming that a template slurm.conf only supports
numbers for NodeName, for example: NodeName=node[1-30]. It would be
really great if slurm could have a support for regexp-like
expressions, for instance: NodeName=node[a-z][0-9],
NodeName=([A-Z]{1,3}|[0-9]?). Implementation of autoscaling could be
easier with this option.
Anna
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Morris "Moe" Jette
CTO, SchedMD LLC
