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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">A simple user SLURM question. Recently I had a need to request a certain range of nodes on a cluster, and I found SLURM was acting against my assumption, but exactly as the man page says.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Namely, I needed say, 20 nodes on a cluster on the same rack (benchmarking!), but I suspected that some node was down for various reasons. So that if I tried something a la:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> sbatch -N 20 --nodelist=nodeX[001-020]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">the job would be stuck pending. My naïve thought was oh, okay, I'll just ask for a bigger swath, like the whole rack (say 50 nodes):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> sbatch -N 20 --nodelist=nodeX[001-050]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">and it will give me 20 nodes within that range, and skip the one that's down. But that lead to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> sbatch: error: invalid number of nodes (-N 50-20)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">I then read the man page and found, that nodelist will let you do the "under":<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> sbatch -N 20 --nodelist=nodeX[001-010]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">but not the "over". Instead I needed to do:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> sbatch -N 20 --nodelist=nodeX[001-011,13-21]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">after finding out, for example, node 12 was down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">So, my question is, is there a way to say, "Please give me X nodes inside this specific range of nodes?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Matt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Matt Thompson, SSAI, Ld Scientific Programmer/Analyst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Consolas">NASA GSFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Code 610.1, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Phone: 301-614-6712 Fax: 301-614-6246<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#0000E9">http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/matthew.thompson</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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