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Slurm Users cannot open gui login nodes with X11 without logging into the Compute node.
by Alper AYKUT 18 Jul '24

18 Jul '24

Hello 1 Login Server I have a total of 3 calculation nodes. Especially in non-GUI jobs, I can run scripts successfully with Slurm sbatch. However, when it is with Gui, I run it with X11. However, my problem for now is this: When I run sbatch gui.sh, it runs smoothly and automatically selects the calculation node and gui is active on the login server. But the node it selects must be logged in with the same user for x11 to work. How can I run the application with gui on the login node without logging in on the calculation node? The calculation node gives the following error when I run the script without logging in. How can I solve this problem. srun: error: Ignoring --x11 option for a job step within an existing job. Set x11 options at job allocation time. srun: error: tutelservernode01: task 0: Exited with exit code 255 My test Script ; #!/bin/bash #SBATCH --partition=debug #Kullanılacak partition (compute, debug, vb.) #SBATCH --job-name=xclock # İşin adı #SBATCH --output=xclock-%j.log # İşin çıktı dosyası #SBATCH --error=xclock-%j.err # İşin hata çıktı dosyası # Slurm'un hangi node'dan işlemi çalıştıracağını seçmesine izin verin # --nodelist parametresi kullanılmazsa, Slurm otomatik olarak bir node seçecektir. # xclock komutunu başlatmak için DISPLAY ortam değişkenini ayarlayın #export DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 # MobaXterm veya başka bir X sunucusunun adresine göre ayarlayın export DISPLAY=$DISPLAY # xclock komutunu sbatch içinde başlatın srun --x11 xclock thankyou for support.

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Nodes TRES double what is requested
by jack.mellor＠mbda.co.uk 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

Hi, We are running slurm 23.02.6. Our nodes have hyperthreading disabled and we have slurm.conf set to CPU=32 for each node (each node has 2 processes with 16 cores). When we allocated a job, such as salloc -n 32, it will allocate a whole node but using sinfo shows double the allocation in the TRES=64. It also shows in sinfo that the node has 4294967264 idle CPUs. Not sure if its a known bug, or an issue with our config? I have tried various things, like setting the sockets/boards in slurm.conf. Thanks Jack

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SLURM noob administrator question
by Cutts, Tim 11 Jul '24

11 Jul '24

Still learning about SLURM, so please forgive me if I ask a naïve question I like to use Anders Halager’s gnodes command to visualise the state of our nodes. I’ve noticed lately that we fairly often see things like this (apologies for line wrap): +- core - 46 cores & 186GB -----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | seskscpn301 0G ___OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO | seskscpn309 172G ..........................................!!!! | seskscpn317 0G OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO | Now, you can see in this that nodes 301 and 317 are more or less fully loaded. This is great. But 309 is in an interesting state. Four overloaded cores, and all other cores unused, and plenty of RAM available. And yet SLURM is not scheduling any more work to that node. Right now there are more than 2000 jobs pending, many of which could run on that node. But SLURM is not scheduling them, and I don’t know why. One thing I’ve seen cause this is a job trying to use more CPUs than it has been allocated. The cgroup stops this being a real problem of course, but it does cause the load average to go high. Is this what’s causing SLURM to stop sending anything to the node? Is there a configuration change that might help in this situation? Thanks in advance, Tim -- Tim Cutts Scientific Computing Platform Lead AstraZeneca Find out more about R&D IT Data, Analytics & AI and how we can support you by visiting our Service Catalogue<https://azcollaboration.sharepoint.com/sites/CMU993> | ________________________________ AstraZeneca UK Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales with registered number:03674842 and its registered office at 1 Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AA. This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient only and may contain confidential and privileged information. If they have come to you in error, you must not copy or show them to anyone; instead, please reply to this e-mail, highlighting the error to the sender and then immediately delete the message. For information about how AstraZeneca UK Limited and its affiliates may process information, personal data and monitor communications, please see our privacy notice at www.astrazeneca.com<https://www.astrazeneca.com>

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Replacing MUNGE with SACK (auth/slurm)
by Daniel Letai 11 Jul '24

11 Jul '24

Does SACK replace MUNGE? As in - MUNGE is not required when building Slurm or on compute? If so, can the Requires and BuildRequires for munge be made optional on bcond_without_munge in the spec file? Or is there a reason MUNGE must remain a hard require for Slurm? Thanks, --Dani_L.

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Job submitted to multiple partitions not running when any partition is full
by Paul Raines 09 Jul '24

09 Jul '24

I have a job 465072 submitted to multiple partitions (rtx6000,rtx8000,pubgpu) JOBID PARTITION PENDING PRIORITY TRES_ALLOC|REASON 4650727 rtx6000 47970 0.00367972 cpu=5,mem=400G,node=1,gpu=1|Priority 4650727 rtx8000 47970 0.00367972 cpu=5,mem=400G,node=1,gpu=1|Priority 4650727 pubgpu 47970 0.00367972 cpu=5,mem=400G,node=1,gpu=1|Priority 4646926 rtx6000 487048 0.00121987 cpu=10,mem=32G,node=1,gpu=1|Priority,Resources 4650186 rtx8000 56979 0.00000000 cpu=4,mem=10G,node=1,gpu=1|Priority,Resources We see the two partitions rtx6000 and rtx8000 are full and two other jobs are at the top of the queue waiting to run on those. But partition pubgpu is NOT full and you can see here a node leo with resources to run the 4650727 job HOST PARTITION CORES MEMORY GPUS leo pubgpu 48/ 64 12288/1030994 0/ 1 leo pubcpu 48/ 64 12288/1030994 0/ 1 The node leo is NOT part of the rtx6000 or rtx8000 partitions and there are no other pending jobs waiting on either the pubgpu or pubcpu partition that leo is part of So why is 4650727 not running on the pubgpu partition? --------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Raines http://help.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging 149 (2301) 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 USA The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Mass General Brigham Compliance HelpLine at https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/complianceline <https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/complianceline> . Please note that this e-mail is not secure (encrypted). If you do not wish to continue communication over unencrypted e-mail, please notify the sender of this message immediately. Continuing to send or respond to e-mail after receiving this message means you understand and accept this risk and wish to continue to communicate over unencrypted e-mail.

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Temporarily bypassing pam_slurm_adopt.so
by Daniel L'Hommedieu 09 Jul '24

09 Jul '24

Hi, all. We have a use case where we need to allow a group of users (members of an LDAP group, which I can easily add to a Linux group) to SSH to a compute node, without disabling pam_slurm_adopt.so. Is there a way to do this? We can add users to the sudo group, which will bypass pam_slurm_adopt.so, but we do not want to grant sudo access to these users. Is there any way to bypass for a group of users, pam_slurm_adopt.so without removing it from /etc/pam.d/sshd, and without adding them to the sudo group? Thanks. Daniel

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vers 23: slurmctld pb (memory leak and response time)
by LEROY Christine 208562 09 Jul '24

09 Jul '24

Hello Everyone, We tried several version of slurm 23-x (till the last one: 23.11.8), and we observe a memory leak in slurmctld in addition to a bad response time (sometimes). It seems to be due to a slurm.conf configuration with Partition containing Allowgroups option. Is it a known problem? Is it recommended to use the version 22, or 24 ? Thanks in advance, Christine Leroy

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Can SLURM queue different jobs to start concurrently?
by Dan Healy 08 Jul '24

08 Jul '24

Hi there, I've received a question from an end user, which I presume the answer is "No", but would like to ask the community first. Scenario: The user wants to create a series of jobs that all need to start at the same time. Example: there are 10 different executable applications which have varying CPU and RAM constraints, all of which need to communicate via TCP/IP. Of course the user could design some type of idle/statusing mechanism to wait until all jobs are *randomly *started, then begin execution, but this feels like a waste of resources. The complete execution of these 10 applications would be considered a single simulation. The goal would be to distribute these 10 applications across the cluster and not necessarily require them all to execute on a single node. Is there a good architecture for this using SLURM? If so, please kindly point me in the right direction. -- Thanks, Daniel Healy

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Re: Can SLURM queue different jobs to start concurrently?
by Lloyd Brown 08 Jul '24

08 Jul '24

I'm confused. Why can't they just use a multi-node job, and have the job script farm out the individual tasks to the various workers through some mechanism (srun, mpirun, ssh, etc.)? AFAIK, there's nothing preventing a job from using resources on multiple hosts. The job just needs to have some way of pushing the work out to those hosts. Lloyd On 7/8/24 14:17, Dan Healy via slurm-users wrote: > Hi there, > > I've received a question from an end user, which I presume the answer > is "No", but would like to ask the community first. > > Scenario: The user wants to create a series of jobs that all need to > start at the same time. Example: there are 10 different executable > applications which have varying CPU and RAM constraints, all of which > need to communicate via TCP/IP. Of course the user could design some > type of idle/statusing mechanism to wait until all jobs are /randomly > /started, then begin execution, but this feels like a waste of > resources. The complete execution of these 10 applications would be > considered a single simulation. The goal would be to distribute these > 10 applications across the cluster and not necessarily require them > all to execute on a single node. > > Is there a good architecture for this using SLURM? If so, please > kindly point me in the right direction. > > -- > Thanks, > > Daniel Healy -- Lloyd Brown HPC Systems Administrator Office of Research Computing Brigham Young University http://rc.byu.edu

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cgroups/v2 plugin rpmbuild issue
by Chris Taylor 06 Jul '24

06 Jul '24

Trying to use rpmbuild on Rocky9 Linux, Slurm 21.08 - I want to build with cgroups/v2 support and have these installed: libbpf-devel.x86_64 2:1.3.0-2.el9 dbus-devel.x86_64 1:1.12.20-8.el9 kernel-headers.x86_64 5.14.0-427.22.1.el9_4 hwloc-devel.x86_64 2.4.1-5.el9 In https://slurm.schedmd.com/cgroup_v2.html it says: Requirements For building cgroup/v2 there are two required libraries checked at configure time... Look at your config.log when configuring to see if they were correctly detected on your system. I don't see any mention of 'ebpf', 'bpf', or 'dbus' when I grep through ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/slurm-21.08.8-2/config.log. Before I noticed that, I installed the RPMS on my cluster and get cgroup errors when I try to run a job or get an allocation. The slurmctld and slurmd processes start up fine on the servers, and I have a generic /etc/slurm/cgroup.conf. It seems like the cgroups plugin isn't getting built right with rpmbuild- how do I troubleshoot? Thanks Chris

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Qlustar HPC Core Stack 24.06
by Roland Fehrenbacher 06 Jul '24

06 Jul '24

Hi all, the Qlustar HPC Core Stack 24.06 update is available. It includes an update to Slurm 23.11.8. Find further details at https://qlustar.com/news/2024/2024-06-29-hpc-core-stack-2406 Enjoy, Roland ------- https://qlustar.com -- 100% Open Source HPC / AI / Storage / Cloud Linux Cluster OS --

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Run a program via Strigger when a node joins the cluster
by Karri Vrkreddy 06 Jul '24

06 Jul '24

Hi, We have a requirement to run a specific program whenever any new node joins the slurm cluster. For this, we have tried using strigger with the following options : "strigger --set --node --up --flags=perm --program=<program>" We see that the trigger is not getting activated always. Checked slurmctld logs for "type=node:up" and noticed it is not always happening. Based on documentation at https://slurm.schedmd.com/strigger.html , "up" flag would mean Trigger an event if the specified node is returned to service from a DOWN state 1. From Slurm Workload Manager - Slurm Power Saving Guide , and the above message does it mean that a node has to be already in DOWN state in the cluster for a trigger with "--up" to get activated ? 2. Are there any other ways beyond strigger to achieve this ? | | | | | | | | | | | Slurm Workload Manager - Slurm Power Saving Guide | | | -- Thanks Karri

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Using sharding
by Ricardo Cruz 05 Jul '24

05 Jul '24

Greetings, There are not many questions regarding GPU sharding here, and I am unsure if I am using it correctly... I have configured it according to the instructions <https://slurm.schedmd.com/gres.html>, and it seems to be configured properly: $ scontrol show node compute01 NodeName=compute01 Arch=x86_64 CoresPerSocket=32 CPUAlloc=48 CPUEfctv=128 CPUTot=128 CPULoad=10.95 AvailableFeatures=(null) ActiveFeatures=(null) * Gres=gpu:8,shard:32* [truncated] When running with gres:gpu everything works perfectly: $ /usr/bin/srun --gres=gpu:2 ls srun: job 192 queued and waiting for resources srun: job 192 has been allocated resources (...) However, when using sharding, it just stays waiting indefinitely: $ /usr/bin/srun --gres=shard:2 ls srun: job 193 queued and waiting for resources The reason it gives for pending is just "Resources": $ scontrol show job 193 JobId=193 JobName=ls UserId=rpcruz(1000) GroupId=rpcruz(1000) MCS_label=N/A Priority=1 Nice=0 Account=account QOS=normal * JobState=PENDING Reason=Resources Dependency=(null)* Requeue=1 Restarts=0 BatchFlag=0 Reboot=0 ExitCode=0:0 RunTime=00:00:00 TimeLimit=2-00:00:00 TimeMin=N/A SubmitTime=2024-06-28T05:36:51 EligibleTime=2024-06-28T05:36:51 AccrueTime=2024-06-28T05:36:51 StartTime=2024-06-29T18:13:22 EndTime=2024-07-01T18:13:22 Deadline=N/A SuspendTime=None SecsPreSuspend=0 LastSchedEval=2024-06-28T05:37:20 Scheduler=Backfill:* Partition=partition AllocNode:Sid=localhost:47757 ReqNodeList=(null) ExcNodeList=(null) NodeList= NumNodes=1 NumCPUs=1 NumTasks=1 CPUs/Task=1 ReqB:S:C:T=0:0:*:* ReqTRES=cpu=1,mem=1031887M,node=1,billing=1 AllocTRES=(null) Socks/Node=* NtasksPerN:B:S:C=0:0:*:* CoreSpec=* MinCPUsNode=1 MinMemoryNode=0 MinTmpDiskNode=0 Features=(null) DelayBoot=00:00:00 OverSubscribe=OK Contiguous=0 Licenses=(null) Network=(null) Command=ls WorkDir=/home/rpcruz Power= * TresPerNode=gres/shard:2* Again, I think I have configured it properly - it shows up correctly in scontrol (as shown above). Our setup is pretty simple - I just added shard to /etc/slurm/slurm.conf: GresTypes=gpu,shard NodeName=compute01 Gres=gpu:8,shard:32 [truncated] Our /etc/slurm/gres.conf is also straight-forward: (it works fine for --gres=gpu:1) Name=gpu File=/dev/nvidia[0-7] Name=shard Count=32 Maybe I am just running srun improperly? Shouldn't it just be srun --gres= shard:2 to allocate half of a GPU? (since I am using 32 shards for the 8 gpus, so it's 4 shards per gpu) Thank you very much for your attention, -- Ricardo Cruz - https://rpmcruz.github.io

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Re: Slurm commands fail when run in Singularity container with the error "Invalid user for SlurmUser slurm, SINGULARITYENV_SLURM_CONF
by Robert Kudyba 03 Jul '24

03 Jul '24

In https://support.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9282#c6 Tim mentioned this env variable SINGULARITYENV_SLURM_CONF, what is the usage/syntax for it? I can't find any reference to this. I'm running into the same issue mentioned there. Thanks in advance!

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Slurm version 24.05.1 is now available
by Tim Wickberg 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 24.05.1. This release addresses a number of minor-to-moderate issues since the 24.05 release was first announced a month ago. Slurm can be downloaded from https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php . - Tim > * Changes in Slurm 24.05.1 > ========================== > -- Fix slurmctld and slurmdbd potentially stopping instead of performing a > logrotate when recieving SIGUSR2 when using auth/slurm. > -- switch/hpe_slingshot - Fix slurmctld crash when upgrading from 23.02. > -- Fix "Could not find group" errors from validate_group() when using > AllowGroups with large /etc/group files. > -- Prevent an assertion in debugging builds when triggering log rotation > in a backup slurmctld. > -- Add AccountingStoreFlags=no_stdio which allows to not record the stdio > paths of the job when set. > -- slurmrestd - Prevent a slurmrestd segfault when parsing the crontab field, > which was never usable. Now it explicitly ignores the value and emits a > warning if it is used for the following endpoints: > 'POST /slurm/v0.0.39/job/{job_id}' > 'POST /slurm/v0.0.39/job/submit' > 'POST /slurm/v0.0.40/job/{job_id}' > 'POST /slurm/v0.0.40/job/submit' > 'POST /slurm/v0.0.41/job/{job_id}' > 'POST /slurm/v0.0.41/job/submit' > 'POST /slurm/v0.0.41/job/allocate' > -- mpi/pmi2 - Fix communication issue leading to task launch failure with > "invalid kvs seq from node". > -- Fix getting user environment when using sbatch with "--get-user-env" or > "--export=" when there is a user profile script that reads /proc. > -- Prevent slurmd from crashing if acct_gather_energy/gpu is configured but > GresTypes is not configured. > -- Do not log the following errors when AcctGatherEnergyType plugins are used > but a node does not have or cannot find sensors: > "error: _get_joules_task: can't get info from slurmd" > "error: slurm_get_node_energy: Zero Bytes were transmitted or received" > However, the following error will continue to be logged: > "error: Can't get energy data. No power sensors are available. Try later" > -- sbatch, srun - Set SLURM_NETWORK environment variable if --network is set. > -- Fix cloud nodes not being able to forward to nodes that restarted with new > IP addresses. > -- Fix cwd not being set correctly when running a SPANK plugin with a > spank_user_init() hook and the new "contain_spank" option set. > -- slurmctld - Avoid deadlock during shutdown when auth/slurm is active. > -- Fix segfault in slurmctld with topology/block. > -- sacct - Fix printing of job group for job steps. > -- scrun - Log when an invalid environment variable causes the job submission > to be rejected. > -- accounting_storage/mysql - Fix problem where listing or modifying an > association when specifying a qos list could hang or take a very long time. > -- gpu/nvml - Fix gpuutil/gpumem only tracking last GPU in step. Now, > gpuutil/gpumem will record sums of all GPUS in the step. > -- Fix error in scrontab jobs when using slurm.conf:PropagatePrioProcess=1. > -- Fix slurmctld crash on a batch job submission with "--nodes 0,...". > -- Fix dynamic IP address fanout forwarding when using auth/slurm. > -- Restrict listening sockets in the mpi/pmix plugin and sattach to the > SrunPortRange. > -- slurmrestd - Limit mime types returned from query to 'GET /openapi/v3' to > only return one mime type per serializer plugin to fix issues with OpenAPI > client generators that are unable to handle multiple mime type aliases. > -- Fix many commands possibly reporting an "Unexpected Message Received" when > in reality the connection timed out. > -- Prevent slurmctld from starting if there is not a json serializer present > and the extra_constraints feature is enabled. > -- Fix heterogeneous job components not being signaled with scancel --ctld and > 'DELETE slurm/v0.0.40/jobs' if the job ids are not explicitly given, > the heterogeneous job components match the given filters, and the > heterogeneous job leader does not match the given filters. > -- Fix regression from 23.02 impeding job licenses from being cleared. > -- Move error to log_flag which made _get_joules_task error to be logged to the > user when too many rpcs were queued in slurmd for gathering energy. > -- For scancel --ctld and the associated rest api endpoints: > 'DELETE /slurm/v0.0.40/jobs' > 'DELETE /slurm/v0.0.41/jobs' > Fix canceling the final array task in a job array when the task is pending > and all array tasks have been split into separate job records. Previously > this task was not canceled. > -- Fix power_save operation after recovering from a failed reconfigure. > -- slurmctld - Skip removing the pidfile when running under systemd. In that > situation it is never created in the first place. > -- Fix issue where altering the flags on a Slurm account (UsersAreCoords) > several limits on the account's association would be set to 0 in > Slurm's internal cache. > -- Fix memory leak in the controller when relaying stepmgr step accounting to > the dbd. > -- Fix segfault when submitting stepmgr jobs within an existing allocation. > -- Added "disable_slurm_hydra_bootstrap" as a possible MpiParams parameter in > slurm.conf. Using this will disable env variable injection to allocations > for the following variables: I_MPI_HYDRA_BOOTSTRAP, > I_MPI_HYDRA_BOOTSTRAP_EXEC_EXTRA_ARGS, HYDRA_BOOTSTRAP, > HYDRA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS. > -- scrun - Delay shutdown until after start requested. This caused scrun > to never start or shutdown and hung forever when using --tty. > -- Fix backup slurmctld potentially not running the agent when taking over as > the primary controller. > -- Fix primary controller not running the agent when a reconfigure of the > slurmctld fails. > -- slurmd - fix premature timeout waiting for REQUEST_LAUNCH_PROLOG with large > array jobs causing node to drain. > -- jobcomp/{elasticsearch,kafka} - Avoid sending fields with invalid date/time. > -- jobcomp/elasticsearch - Fix slurmctld memory leak from curl usage > -- acct_gather_profile/influxdb - Fix slurmstepd memory leak from curl usage > -- Fix 24.05.0 regression not deleting job hash dirs after MinJobAge. > -- Fix filtering arguments being ignored when using squeue --json. > -- switch/nvidia_imex - Move setup call after spank_init() to allow namespace > manipulation within the SPANK plugin. > -- switch/nvidia_imex - Skip plugin operation if nvidia-caps-imex-channels > device is not present rather than preventing slurmd from starting. > -- switch/nvidia_imex - Skip plugin operation if job_container/tmpfs > is configured due to incompatibility. > -- switch/nvidia_imex - Remove any pre-existing channels when slurmd starts. > -- rpc_queue - Add support for an optional rpc_queue.yaml configuration file.

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SLURM QoS Preemption Not Functioning as Expected
by 木子 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

Hi all; I'm testing slurm preempt with PreemptType=preempt/qos and PreemptMode=suspend,gang in slurm.conf. But job with high-qos not preempt the job with low-qos. My configuration followed: slurm version: 23.11.4 test node : 8 CPUS and 8GB RAM QoS Configuration:  Partition Configuration:  Job Submission: I submitted test jobs, one with --qos=low-qos and--partition=low , resources 4 CPUs, 4GB memory, and later, a  job  with --qos=high-qos and  --partition=g1 requesting more resources( 5 CPUs, 5GB memory). Did anyone else encounter this issue or any additional steps I might need to take to correctly enable QoS-based preemption in our SLURM setup. Best regards, Liyar

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scontrol update job=... comment=... fails with "Job is no longer pending"
by Thomas Zeiser 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

Dear Slurm community, we are running 23.02.7. For a small fraction of jobs we get "Job is no longer pending execution for job <JOBID>" when running "scontrol update job=JOBID comment=SOME-COMMENT" on an already running job. For the majority (I guess 98%) of running jobs, this works perfectly fine. I also see no reason why updating the comment of a running job should not be allowed. Did anyone else observe this issue or are there explanations why this might be expected? (We abuse the comment field to track which GPUs within a node are assigned to a job as we did not find any option within Slurm to get the GPU IDs of assigned GPUs but we need that information for our monitoring framework.) Best regards, Thomas Zeiser, NHR@FAU

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Slurmctld Problems
by stth 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

Dear slurm users, It is my first time setting slurm up and I am looking for a solution to this errors. Has anyone here already ecountered this problem. I would really appreciate the help. mariadb, slurmdbd and slurmd are active. *×* slurmctld.service - Slurm controller daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/slurmctld.service; *enabled*; preset: *enabled*) Active: *failed* (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-06-25 10:06:39 UTC; 2min 42s ago Duration: 584ms Docs: man:slurmctld(8) Process: 63738 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/slurmctld --systemd $SLURMCTLD_OPTIONS *(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)* Main PID: 63738 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 25ms Jun 25 10:06:39 server systemd[1]: Starting slurmctld.service - Slurm controller daemon... Jun 25 10:06:39 server (lurmctld)[63738]: *slurmctld.service: Referenced but unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string: SLURMCTLD_OPTIONS* Jun 25 10:06:39 server slurmctld[63738]: slurmctld: slurmctld version 23.11.4 started on servercluster Jun 25 10:06:39 server systemd[1]: Started slurmctld.service - Slurm controller daemon. Jun 25 10:06:39 server slurmctld[63738]: slurmctld: accounting_storage/slurmdbd: clusteracct_storage_p_register_ctld: Registering slurmctld at port 6817 with slurmdbd Jun 25 10:06:39 server slurmctld[63738]: slurmctld: priority/multifactor: _read_last_decay_ran: No last decay (/var/spool/slurm/state/priority_last_decay_ran) to recover Jun 25 10:06:39 server slurmctld[63738]: slurmctld: No memory enforcing mechanism configured. Jun 25 10:06:39 server slurmctld[63738]: slurmctld: fatal: Can not recover last_conf_lite, incompatible version, (9472 not between 9728 and 10240), start with '-i' to ignore this. Warning: using -i will lose the data that can't be recovered. Jun 25 10:06:39 server systemd[1]: *slurmctld.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE* Jun 25 10:06:39 server systemd[1]: *slurmctld.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.*

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How to exclude master from computing? Set to DRAINED?
by Xaver Stiensmeier 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

Dear Slurm users, in our project we exclude the master from computing before starting Slurmctld. We used to exclude the master from computing by simply not mentioning it in the configuration i.e. just not having: PartitionName=SomePartition Nodes=master or something similar. Apparently, this is not the way to do this as it is now a fatal error fatal: Unable to determine this slurmd's NodeName therefore, my *question:* What is the best practice for excluding the master node from work? I personally primarily see the option to set the node into DOWN, DRAINED or RESERVED. Since we use ReturnToService=2, I guess DOWN is not the way to go. RESERVED fits with the second part "The node is in an advanced reservation and *not generally available*." and DRAINED "The node is unavailable for use per system administrator request." fits completely. So is *DRAINED* the correct setting in such a case? Best regards, Xaver

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error: unpack_header: protocol_version 9472 not supported
by Arnuld 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

I have built Slurm 23.11.7 on two machines. Both are running Ubuntu 22.04. While Slurm runs fine on one machine, on the 2nd machine it does not. First machine is both a controller and a node while the 2nd machine is just a node. On both machines, I built the Slurm debian package as per the Slurm docs instructions. Slurmd logs show this: error: unpack_header: protocol_version 9472 not supported error: unpacking header error: destroy_forward: no init error: slurm_receive_msg_and_forward: [[host-4.attlocal.net]:38960] failed: Message receive failure error: service_connection: slurm_receive_msg: Message receive failure debug: _service_connection: incomplete message

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Can Not Use A Single GPU for Multiple Jobs
by Arnuld 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

I have a machine with a quad-core CPU and an Nvidia GPU with 3500+ cores. I want to run around 10 jobs in parallel on the GPU (mostly are CUDA based jobs). PROBLEM: Each job asks for only 100 shards (runs usually for a minute or so), then I should be able to run 3500/100 = 35 jobs in parallel but slurm runs only 4 jobs in parallel keeping the rest in the queue. I have this in slurm.conf and gres.conf: # GPU GresTypes=gpu,shard # COMPUTE NODES PartitionName=pzero Nodes=ALL Default=YES MaxTime=INFINITE State=UP` PartitionName=pgpu Nodes=hostgpu MaxTime=INFINITE State=UP NodeName=hostgpu NodeAddr=x.x.x.x Gres=gpu:gtx_1080_ti:1,shard:3500 CPUs=4 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=1 CoresPerSocket=4 ThreadsPerCore=1 RealMemory=64255 State=UNKNOWN ---------------------- Name=gpu Type=gtx_1080_ti File=/dev/nvidia0 Count=1 Name=shard Count=3500 File=/dev/nvidia0

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How can I tell the OS that was used to build SLURM?
by Carl Ponder 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

We're seeing SLURM mis-behaving on one of your clusters, that runs Ubuntu 22.04. Ampng other problems, we see an error-message regarding a missing library version that would have been shipped on Ubuntu 20.04 not 22.04. It's not clear that the library is being called from a SLURM component or OpenMPI or something else. I'm able to read some of the SLURM configuration settings, but is there a way to tell what OS had been used to build it? I imagine that the build-log would show some system-detection steps that would expose that, but don't know if it's bundled with the rest of the SLURM install somewhere.

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how to safely rename a slurm user's name
by taleintervenor＠sjtu.edu.cn 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

Hello, I'd like to ask if there is any safe method to rename an existing slurm user to new username with the same uid? As for linux itself, it's quite common to have 2 user share the same uid. So if we already have 2 system users, for example Bob(uid=1500) and HPCBob(uid=1500), and the HPCBob is the existing slurm user, how can we rename it to Bob without lost of user's history job records or associations? Do we have to manually edit the slurm database?

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IMEX plugin in Slurm 24.05
by Taras Shapovalov 19 Jun '24

19 Jun '24

Hello, Does anyone know if there is any documentation about the NVIDIA IMEX plugin for Slurm 24.05? It is not even in man page for slurm.conf, though it is in the release notes. Best regards, Taras

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Help with slurmdbd and Slurmctld
by stth 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

Hello, I wanted help with a problem I have. I just updated my operation system and the slurmdbd and slurmctld is not working anymore. I get this Errors: slurmdbd: fatal: Database schema is too old for this version of Slurm to upgrade. slurmctld: fatal: Can not recover last_tres state, incompatible version, got 9472 need >= 9728 <= 10240,start with '-i' to ignore this. Warning: using -i will lose the data that can't be recovered. I hope someone can help !

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