[slurm-users] wckey specification error

[John Hearns]

Mahmood, good to hear you have a solution.

One learning point    grep -i   is a good default option.  This ignores the
case of the search, so you would have found WCKey a bit faster.


On 2 May 2018 at 04:26, Mahmood Naderan <mahmood.nt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Trevor for pointing out that there is an option for such thing
> is slurm.conf. Although I previously greped for *wc* and found
> nothing, the correct name is TrackWCKey which is set to "yes" by
> default. After setting that to "no", the error disappeared.
>
> About the comments on Rocks and the Slurm roll... in my experiences,
> rocks 7 is very good and the unofficial slurm roll provided by Werner
> is also very good. It is worth to give them a try. Although I had some
> experiences with manual slurm installation on an ubuntu cluster some
> years ago, the automatic installation of the roll was very nice
> indeed! All the commands and configurations can be extracted from the
> roll. So there is no dark point about that. Limited issues about
> slurm, e.g. installation, are directly related to Werner. Most of the
> other question are related to the slurm itself. For example accounting
> and other things.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mahmood
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:35 PM, Cooper, Trevor <tcooper at sdsc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> On May 1, 2018, at 2:58 AM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Rocks 7 is now available, which is based on CentOS 7.4
> >> I hate to be uncharitable, but I am not a fan of Rocks. I speak from
> experience, having installed my share of Rocks clusters.
> >> The philosophy just does not fit in with the way I look at the world.
> >>
> >> Anyway, to install extra software on Rocks you need a 'Roll'   Mahmood
> Looks like you are using this Roll
> >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/slurm-roll/
> >> It seems pretty mpdern as it installs Slurm 17.11.3
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1 May 2018 at 11:40, Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org> wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 2:45:21 PM AEST Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> >>
> >> > The wckey explanation in the manual [1] is not meaningful at the
> >> > moment. Can someone explain that?
> >>
> >> I've never used it, but it sounds like you've configured your system to
> require
> >> it (or perhaps Rocks has done that?).
> >>
> >> https://slurm.schedmd.com/wckey.html
> >>
> >> Good luck,
> >> Chris
> >> --
> >>  Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The slurm-roll hosted on sourceforge is developed and supported by
> Werner Saar not by developers of Rocks and/or other Rocks application rolls
> (e.g. SDSC).
> >
> > There is ample documentation on sourceforge[1] on how to configure your
> Rocks cluster to properly deploy the slurm-roll components and update your
> Slurm configuration.
> >
> > There is also an active discussion group for the slurm-roll on
> sourceforge[2] where Werner supports users of the slurm-roll for Rocks.
> >
> > While we don't use Werner's slurm-roll on our Rocks/Slurm based systems
> I have installed it on test system and can say that it works as
> expected/documented.
> >
> > In the default configuration WCKeys were NOT enabled so this something
> that you must have added to your Slurm configuration.
> >
> > If you don't need the WCKeys capability of Slurm perhaps you could
> simply disable it in your Slurm configuration.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Trevor
> >
> > [1] - https://sourceforge.net/projects/slurm-roll/files/
> release-7.0.0-17.11.05/slurm-roll.pdf
> > [2] - https://sourceforge.net/p/slurm-roll/discussion/
> >
> > --
> > Trevor Cooper
> > HPC Systems Programmer
> > San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD
> > 9500 Gilman Drive, 0505
> > La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
> >
>
>
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