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Thanks so much for this answer! Turned out that default partitions get set <span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted1">on this HPC </span>via an environment variable, so armed with the knowledge you
shared, I've been able to figure out a viable path for my use-case by making use of 'unset SBATCH_PARTITION' =)</div>
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<b>From:</b> slurm-users on behalf of Bjørn-Helge Mevik<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 9, 2023 2:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> slurm-users@schedmd.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [slurm-users] --partition requests ignored in scripts
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<div class="PlainText">"Bunis, Dan" <Daniel.Bunis@ucsf.edu> writes:<br>
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> My colleagues and I have noticed that our compute cluster seems to<br>
> ignore '--partition' requests when we give them as '#SBATCH<br>
> --partition=<partition_name>' inside of our scripts, but it respects<br>
> them when given in-line within our sbatch calls as 'sbatch<br>
> --partition=<partition_name> script.sh'. Based on some googling, it<br>
> seems that both methods are meant to work, so I'm wondering if it's<br>
> known what can cause the in-script methodology to NOT work for<br>
> schedulers where the in-line methodology DOES work?<br>
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My suspicion is that there is an environment variable SBATCH_PARTITION<br>
set in your shells. Such a variable will override the #SBATCH directive,<br>
but not the command line switch.<br>
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>From man sbatch:<br>
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INPUT ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES<br>
[...]<br>
NOTE: Environment variables will override any options set in a batch<br>
script, and command line options will override any environment<br>
variables.<br>
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-- <br>
Regards,<br>
Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,<br>
Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo<br>
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