[slurm-users] how to restrict jobs

[Renfro, Michael]

Have you seen https://slurm.schedmd.com/licenses.html already? If the software is just for use inside the cluster, one Licenses= line in slurm.conf plus users submitting with the -L flag should suffice. Should be able to set that license value is 4 if it’s licensed per node and you can run up to 4 jobs simultaneously, or 4*NCPUS if it’s licensed per CPU, or 1 if it’s a single license good for one run from 1-4 nodes.

There are also options to query a FlexLM or RLM server for license management.

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Mike Renfro, PhD / HPC Systems Administrator, Information Technology Services
931 372-3601     / Tennessee Tech University

> On May 5, 2020, at 7:54 AM, navin srivastava <navin.altair at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Team,
> 
> we have an application whose licenses is limited .it scales upto 4 nodes(~80 cores).
> so if 4 nodes are full, in 5th node job used to get fail.
> we want to put a restriction so that the application can't go for the execution beyond the 4 nodes and fail it should be in queue state.
> i do not want to keep a separate partition to achieve this config.is there a way to achieve this scenario using some dynamic resource which can call the license variable on the fly and if it is reached it should keep the job in queue.
> 
> Regards
> Navin.
> 
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