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+1 for features.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Features can also be added / changed during runtime like this "</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">scontrol update Node=$(hostname -s)
AvailableFeatures=$FEAT ActiveFeatures=$FEAT"</span><br>
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Cheers,</div>
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Florian</div>
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<b>From:</b> slurm-users on behalf of Ward Poelmans<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 6, 2023 09:03<br>
<b>To:</b> slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] Re: [slurm-users] Request nodes with a custom resource?
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<div class="PlainText">Hi Xaver,<br>
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On 6/02/2023 08:39, Xaver Stiensmeier wrote:<br>
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> How would you schedule a job (let's say using srun) to work on these<br>
> nodes? Of course this would be interesting in a dynamic case, too<br>
> (assuming that the database is downloaded to nodes during job<br>
> execution), but for now I would be happy with a static solution (where<br>
> it is okay to store a value before that says something like<br>
> "hasDatabase=1" on nodes.<br>
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You could use features for that? A feature can be assigned to nodes and you can request nodes with specific feature for a job:<br>
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In slurm.conf:<br>
NodeName=node001 CPUs=1 Feature=hasdatabase ...<br>
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And for your jobs:<br>
sbatch --constraint=hasdatabase ...<br>
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Ward<br>
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