[slurm-users] how to restrict jobs

[Renfro, Michael]

Haven’t done it yet myself, but it’s on my todo list.

But I’d assume that if you use the FlexLM or RLM parts of that documentation, that Slurm would query the remote license server periodically and hold the job until the necessary licenses were available.

> On May 5, 2020, at 8:37 AM, navin srivastava <navin.altair at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Michael,
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> yes i have gone through but the licenses are remote license and it will be used by outside as well not only in slurm.
> so basically i am interested to know how we can update the database dynamically to get the exact value at that point of time.
> i mean query the license server and update the database accordingly. does slurm automatically updated the value based on usage?
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> Regards
> Navin.
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> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:00 PM Renfro, Michael <Renfro at tntech.edu> wrote:
> 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.
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> There are also options to query a FlexLM or RLM server for license management.
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> > On May 5, 2020, at 7:54 AM, navin srivastava <navin.altair at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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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