[slurm-users] Documentation for creating a login node for a SLURM cluster

[Bjørn-Helge Mevik]

Aravindh Sampathkumar <aravindh at fastmail.com> writes:

> I built a simple 2 node SLURM cluster for the first time, and I'm able
> to run jobs on the lone compute node from the node that runs Slurmctl.However,
> I'd like to setup a "login node" which only allows users to
> submit jobs to the SLURM cluster and not act as SLURM controller or as a
> compute node. I'm struggling to find documentation about what needs to
> be installed and configured on this login node to be able to submit jobs
> to the cluster.

In short:

On the login node, just install slurm and munge with the same config
files as on the other nodes, but don't list it in the node
configuration.  Then the slurm commands (squeue, sbatch, etc.) will work
on the login node so you can submit jobs, but no jobs will be run there,
and no daemons will run there.

-- 
Cheers,
Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,
Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo
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