[slurm-users] Creating custom partition GRES

[Sébastien VIGNERON]

Hello almon,

Did you look the NodeName/Feature list functionality with sbatch —constraints before choosing GRES?

Best regards,
Sebastien VIGNERON

> Le 18 mai 2018 à 00:02, Almon Gem Otanes <almonds22 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hi everyone,
> Is there a way to add GRES/features/attributes(not sure which is the correct term) to partitions? I'm trying to port from SGE to SLURM. Our current setup have queues(partitions) that refer to physical systems. The binaries we want to execute are just scripts that don't need to run on the partitions so in this case, we use the nodes as execution hosts. I want to be able to tell sbatch I want to submit to any partition that have a set of custom GRES/features/attributes. For example, a partition with a BERT(bit error rate tester) with loopback enabled. So my GRES would look something like bert:true,loopback=true. 
> 
> I do have a semi-solution but I'm not sure if there is a better solution with a SLURM feature I'm not familiar with. My solution is to use the job_submit plugin to redirect the GRES that is meant for the nodes to be used as filters for the partition. My next problem is how to tell the scheduler that it can only submit to the list of partitions I indicate. The partition job submit plugin only shows how to set the partition to a specific one. 
> 
> In short, my questions are:
> 1. How to apply custom GRES to partitions?
> 2. Is there a way using the job_submit plugin to limit the partitions the scheduler can submit to from a list that I indicate?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Almon Otanes