[slurm-users] Running Slurm on a single host?

[Alex Chekholko]

The thing you are describing is possible in both theory and practice.
Plenty of people use a scheduler on a single large host.  The challenge
will be in enforcing user practices so they don't just run commands
directly but through the scheduler.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at math.utexas.edu>
wrote:

> I've been using Slurm on a traditional CPU compute cluster, but am now
> looking at a somewhat different issue.  We recently purchased a single
> machine with 10 high end graphics cards to be used for CUDA calculations
> and which will shared among a couple of different user groups.
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> Does it make sense to use Slurm for scheduling in this case?  We'll want
> to do things like limit the number of GPU's any one user can use and manage
> resource contention the same way one would for a cluster. Potentially this
> would mean running slurmctld and slurmd on the same host?
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> Bonus question: these research groups (they do roughly the same kind of
> work) also have a pool of GPU workstations they're going to share.  It
> would be super cool if we could somehow rope the workstations into the
> resource pool in cases where no one is working at the console. Because some
> of this stuff involves steps with interactive components, the understanding
> would be that all resources go to a console user when there is a console
> user.
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