[slurm-users] Topology configuration questions:

[Prentice Bisbal]

Ryan,

Thanks for looking into this. I hadn't had a chance to revisit the 
documentation since posing my question. Thanks for doing that for me.

Prentice Bisbal
Lead Software Engineer
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
http://www.pppl.gov

On 1/18/19 2:58 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> The documentation indicates you need it everywhere:
>
> https://slurm.schedmd.com/topology.conf.html
>
> "Changes to the configuration file take effect upon restart of Slurm daemons, daemon receipt of the SIGHUP signal, or execution of the command "scontrol reconfigure" unless otherwise noted."
>
> I have vague memories of not being able to schedule any jobs if it’s missing, but it’s been awhile now.
>
>> On Jan 17, 2019, at 4:52 PM, Prentice Bisbal <pbisbal at pppl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> And a follow-up question: Does topology.conf need to be on all the nodes, or just the slurm controller? It's not clear from that web page. I would assume only the controller needs it.
>>
>> Prentice
>>
>> On 1/17/19 4:49 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>>>  From https://slurm.schedmd.com/topology.html:
>>>
>>>> Note that compute nodes on switches that lack a common parent switch can be used, but no job will span leaf switches without a common parent (unless the TopologyParam=TopoOptional option is used). For example, it is legal to remove the line "SwitchName=s4 Switches=s[0-3]" from the above topology.conf file. In that case, no job will span more than four compute nodes on any single leaf switch. This configuration can be useful if one wants to schedule multiple phyisical clusters as a single logical cluster under the control of a single slurmctld daemon.
>>> My current environment falls into the category of multiple physical clusters being treated as a single logical cluster under the control of a single slurmctld daemon. At least, that's my goal.
>>>
>>> In my environment, I have 2 "clusters" connected by their own separate IB fabrics, and one "cluster" connected with 10 GbE. I have a fourth cluster connected with only 1GbE. For this 4th cluster, we don't want jobs to span nodes, due to the slow performance of 1 GbE. (This cluster is intended for serial and low-core count parallel jobs) If I just leave those nodes out of the topology.conf file, will that have the desired affect of not allocating multi-node jobs to those nodes, or will it result in an error of some sort?
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