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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’re currently moving our cluster from Grid Engine to SLURM, and I’m having trouble finding the best way to perform a specific bit of partition maintenance. I’m not sure if I’m simply missing something in the manual or if I need to be
thinking in a more SLURM-centric way. My basic question: is it possible to ‘disable’ specific partition/node combinations rather than whole nodes or whole partitions? Here’s an example of the sort of thing I’m looking to do:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have node ‘node1’ with two partitions ‘x’ and ‘y’. I’d like to remove partition ‘y’, but there are currently user jobs in that partition on that node. With Grid Engine, I could disable specific queue instances (ie, I could just run “qmod
-d y@node1’ to disable queue/partition y on node1 and wait for the jobs to complete and then remove the partition. That would be the least disruptive option because:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Queue/partition ‘y’ on other nodes would be unaffected<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">User jobs for queue/partition ‘x’ would still be able to launch on node1 the whole time<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I can’t seem to find a functional equivalent of this in SLURM:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">I can set the whole node to Drain<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">I can set the whole partition to Inactive<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is there some way to ‘disable’ partition y just on node1?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
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