[slurm-users] [External] Limit nodes of a partition without managing users

[Gerhard Strangar]

Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>> I'm wondering if it's possible to have slurm 19 run two partitions (low
>> and high prio) that share all the nodes and limit the high prio
>> partition in number of nodes used simultaneously without requiring to
>> manage the users in the database.
> Yes, you can do this using Slurm's QOS facility

I don't think so. The documentation says setting
"AccountingStorageEnforce=qos" is equal to
"AccountingStorageEnforce=qos,associations" and "associations - This
will prevent users from running jobs if their association is not in the
database.".

Gerhard