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Hello,</div>
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We are installing a group of nodes which all contain 4 GPU cards. The GPUs are paired together using NVLINK as described in the matrix below. </div>
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We are familiar with using Slurm to schedule and run jobs on GPU cards, but this is the first time we have dealt with NVLINK enabled GPUs. Could someone please advise us how to configure Slurm so that we can submit jobs to the cards and make use of the NVLINK?
That is, what do we need to put in the gres.conf or slurm.conf, and how should users use the sbatch command? I presume, for example, that a user could make use of a GPU card, and potentially make use of memory on the paired card.</div>
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Best regards,</div>
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David</div>
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[root@alpha51 ~]# nvidia-smi topo --matrix
<div> GPU0 GPU1 GPU2 GPU3 CPU Affinity NUMA Affinity</div>
<div>GPU0 X NV2 SYS SYS 0,2,4,6,8,10 0</div>
<div>GPU1 NV2 X SYS SYS 0,2,4,6,8,10 0</div>
<div>GPU2 SYS SYS X NV2 1,3,5,7,9,11 1</div>
GPU3 SYS SYS NV2 X 1,3,5,7,9,11 1<br>
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