Ensure cgroups is working and configured to limit access to devices (which includes gpus).

Check your cgroup.conf to see that there is an entry for:

ConstrainDevices=yes

Brian Andrus

On 1/3/2025 10:49 AM, Groner, Rob via slurm-users wrote:

I'm not entirely sure, and I can't vouch for differences in  a (relatively) older version of slurm.... But I'm pretty sure on our cluster, we have to specify the GRES in the partition in order for Slurm to treat them as allocatable resources.  On our interactive nodes, we have GPUs but we don't list them as a GRES in the partition, which lets anyone on those nodes use them.  On our other partitions, we do specify the GRES, and that prevents a user from accessing them unless they specify --gres.

Rob

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*From:* Jacob Gordon via slurm-users slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com *Sent:* Friday, January 3, 2025 11:32 AM *To:* slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com *Subject:* [slurm-users] All GPUs are Usable if no Gres is Defined

Hello,

We have a two node GPU cluster with 8 NVidia GPUs. GRES is currently configured and works if a user defines it within their sbtach/interactive job submission (--gres=gpu:3). Users only have access to the GPUs they request. However, when they omit  “--gres=gpu:n”, they can use every GPU, which interferes with running jobs that used the gres option. I’m at a loss as to why this is happening. Can someone please look at our configuration to see if anything stands out?

SLURM Version = 21.08.5

*_Slurm.conf_*

ClusterName=ommit

SlurmctldHost=headnode

ProctrackType=proctrack/cgroup

ReturnToService=2

SlurmdPidFile=/run/slurmd.pid

SlurmdSpoolDir=/var/lib/slurm/slurmd

StateSaveLocation=/var/lib/slurm/slurmctld

SlurmUser=slurm

TaskPlugin=task/cgroup

SchedulerType=sched/backfill

SelectType=select/cons_tres

SelectTypeParameters=CR_Core_Memory

AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/slurmdbd

# AccountingStorageType for other resources

#

AccountingStorageTRES=gres/gpu

#DebugFlags=CPU_Bind,gres

JobCompType=jobcomp/none

JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/cgroup

SlurmctldDebug=info

SlurmctldLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmctld.log

SlurmdDebug=info

SlurmdLogFile=/var/log/slurm/slurmd.log

DefMemPerCPU=4000

#NodeName=n01 CPUs=256 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=2 CoresPerSocket=64 ThreadsPerCore=2 RealMemory=1000000

NodeName=n01 Gres=gpu:nvidia-l40:8 CPUs=256 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=2 CoresPerSocket=64 ThreadsPerCore=2 RealMemory=1000000

NodeName=n02 Gres=gpu:nvidia-l40:8 CPUs=256 Boards=1 SocketsPerBoard=2 CoresPerSocket=64 ThreadsPerCore=2 RealMemory=1000000

#Gres config for GPUs

GresTypes=gpu

PreemptType=preempt/qos

PreemptMode=REQUEUE

# reset usage after 1 week

PriorityUsageResetPeriod=WEEKLY

# The job's age factor reaches 1.0 after waiting in the

# queue for 2 weeks.

PriorityMaxAge=14-0

# This next group determines the weighting of each of the

# components of the Multifactor Job Priority Plugin.

# The default value for each of the following is 1.

PriorityWeightAge=1000

PriorityWeightFairshare=10000

PriorityWeightJobSize=1000

PriorityWeightPartition=1000

PriorityWeightQOS=1500

# Primary partitions

PartitionName=debug Nodes=ALL Default=YES MaxTime=INFINITE State=UP

PartitionName=all Nodes=n01,n02 Default=YES MaxTime=01:00:00 DefaultTime=00:30:00 State=UP

PartitionName=statds Nodes=n01 Default=NO MaxTime=48:00:00 State=UP Priority=100 State=UP OverSubscribe=FORCE AllowAccounts=statds

PartitionName=phil Nodes=n02 Default=NO MaxTime=48:00:00 State=UP Priority=100 State=UP OverSubscribe=FORCE AllowAccounts=phil

#Set up condo mode

# Condo partitions

PartitionName=phil_condo Nodes=n02 Default=NO MaxTime=48:00:00 DefaultTime=00:01:00 State=UP Priority=50 OverSubscribe=FORCE AllowQos=normal

PartitionName=statds_condo Nodes=n01 Default=NO MaxTime=48:00:00 DefaultTime=00:01:00 State=UP Priority=50 OverSubscribe=FORCE AllowQos=normal

JobSubmitPlugins=lua

*_Gres.conf_*

NodeName=n01 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia0

NodeName=n01 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia1

NodeName=n01 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia2

NodeName=n01 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia3

NodeName=n01 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia4

NodeName=n01 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia5

NodeName=n01 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia6

NodeName=n01 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia7

NodeName=n02 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia0

NodeName=n02 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia1

NodeName=n02 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia2

NodeName=n02 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia3

NodeName=n02 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia4

NodeName=n02 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia5

NodeName=n02 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia6

NodeName=n02 Name=gpu Type=nvidia-l40 File=/dev/nvidia7

*_Cgroup.conf_*

CgroupMountpoint="/sys/fs/cgroup"

CgroupAutomount=yes

CgroupReleaseAgentDir="/etc/slurm/cgroup"

AllowedDevicesFile="/etc/slurm/cgroup_allowed_devices_file.conf"

ConstrainCores=yes

ConstrainDevices=yes

ConstrainRAMSpace=yes

*_cgroup_allowed_devices_file.conf_*

/dev/null

/dev/urandom

/dev/zero

/dev/sda*

/dev/cpu/*/*

/dev/pts/*

/dev/nvidia*