[slurm-users] submit from node w/ different OS?

[Paul Edmon]

Generally it is best that they should be.  Slurm maps the users 
environment into the job submission.  So if things change in the OSt 
under it it can lead to issues.

-Paul Edmon-


On 07/26/2018 12:39 PM, Liam Forbes wrote:
> Morning All.
>
> I'm attempting to set up a new submit host with a different OS (major) 
> version than the compute cluster. Should this be doable?
>
> I have an OpenMPI app I can submit, using sbatch and qsub, from a 
> cluster node and it runs fine. However, when I submit from the new 
> host it fails. Initially I didn't have the compiler or OpenMPI even 
> installed on the new submit host which resulted in missing library 
> errors. So I installed them even though they'll never be used on the 
> new host. Now I'm fighting OpenMPI errors. It seems like incorrect 
> settings or information are being gathered from the new submit host 
> and then applied on the compute nodes. I don't care about the 
> environment of the new submit host at all though. I just want it to be 
> able to launch jobs with apps that have been built on the cluster. 
> Does a submit host have to be the same OS as a compute cluster?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> -liam
>
> -There are uncountably more irrational fears than rational ones. -P. Dolan
> Liam Forbes loforbes at alaska.edu <mailto:loforbes at alaska.edu>  ph: 
> 907-450-8618 fax: 907-450-8601
> UAF Research Computing Systems Senior HPC Engineer          CISSP

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