<div dir="auto">Ask for 8 gpus on 2 nodes instead.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In your script just change the 16 to 8 and it should do what you want.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You are currently asking for 2 nodes with 16 gpu each as <span style="font-family:sans-serif">Gres resources are per node.</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Antony </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, 09:08 Ran Du, <<a href="mailto:bella.ran.du@gmail.com">bella.ran.du@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div> Does anyone know how to set #SBATCH options to get multiple GPU cards from different worker nodes?</div><div><br></div><div> One of our users would like to apply for 16 NVIDIA V100 cards for his job, and there are 8 GPU cards on each worker node, I have tried the following #SBATCH options:</div><div><br></div><div> #SBATCH --partition=gpu </div><div> #SBATCH --qos=normal</div><div> #SBATCH --account=u07</div><div> #SBATCH --job-name=cross </div><div> #SBATCH --nodes=2 </div><div> #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=1024 </div><div> #SBATCH --output=test.32^4.16gpu.log </div><div> #SBATCH --gres=gpu:v100:16</div><div><br></div><div> but got the sbatch error message : </div><div> sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Requested node configuration is not available</div><div><br></div><div> And I found a similar question on stack overflow: </div><div> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45200926/how-to-access-to-gpus-on-different-nodes-in-a-cluster-with-slurm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45200926/how-to-access-to-gpus-on-different-nodes-in-a-cluster-with-slurm</a></div><div><br></div><div> And it is said that multiple GPU cards allocation on different worker nodes are not available, the post is in 2017, is it still true at present?</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks a lot for your help.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Ran </div></div></div></div>
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