Hi Daniel,

you can create a reservation for the node for the said account.

Regards,

Gerald Schneider

Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD

Joachim-Jungius-Str. 11 | 18059 Rostock | Germany

Tel. +49 6151 155-309 | +49 381 4024-193 | Fax +49 381 4024-199

gerald.schneider@igd-r.fraunhofer.de | www.igd.fraunhofer.de

From: Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com>
Sent: Montag, 10. Juni 2024 15:03
To: slurm-users@schedmd.com
Subject: [slurm-users] scontrol create partition fails

Hi,

I need to temporarily dedicated one of our compute nodes to a single account. To do this, I was going to create a new partition but I’m running into an error where

scontrol create partition

outputs “scontrol: error: Invalid input: partition Request aborted” regardless of what parameters I give it. As far as I can tell, this should be allowed; the man page for scontrol has a whole section titled “Partitions – Specficiations for Create, Update, and Delete Commands”. What am I missing?

Also, is there a better way to approach this? This is really just a one or two day thing and I’m a little surprised there’s no easy way to cordon off a node for a user or a project without spinning up an entire partition. Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks for any help you can provide.