[slurm-users] Reserving a GPU

[R. Paul Wiegand]

I had the same question and put in a support ticket.  I believe the answer
is that you cannot.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 11:51 Christopher Benjamin Coffey <
Chris.Coffey at nau.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can't figure out how one would create a reservation to reserve a gres
> unit, such as a gpu. The man page doesn't really say that gres is supported
> for a reservation, but it does say tres is supported. Yet, I can't seem to
> figure out how one could specify a gpu with tres. I've tried:
>
>
> scontrol create reservation starttime=2018-11-10T08:00:00 user=root
> duration=14-00:00:00 tres=gpu/tesla=1
> scontrol create reservation starttime=2018-11-10T08:00:00 user=root
> duration=14-00:00:00 gres=gpu:tesla:1
>
> Is it not possible to reserve a single gpu? Our gpus are requested
> normally in jobs like " --gres=gpu:tesla:1". I'd rather not reserve an
> entire node and thus reserve all of the gpus in it. Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
> —
> Christopher Coffey
> High-Performance Computing
> Northern Arizona University
> 928-523-1167
>
>
>
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