[slurm-users] Reserving a GPU (Christopher Benjamin Coffey)

sathish sathish.sathishkumar at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 17:32:33 UTC 2020


Hi Chris,

I have a test cluster running with 20.02 and I confirm you cannot reserve a
GPU resources.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 5:43 AM Christopher Benjamin Coffey <
Chris.Coffey at nau.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Anyone know if its possible yet to reserve a gpu?  Maybe in 20.02? Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
> --
> Christopher Coffey
> High-Performance Computing
> Northern Arizona University
> 928-523-1167
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> On 5/19/20, 3:04 PM, "slurm-users on behalf of Christopher Benjamin
> Coffey" <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com on behalf of
> Chris.Coffey at nau.edu> wrote:
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>     Hi Lisa,
>
>     Im actually referring to the ability to create a reservation that
> includes a gpu resource. It doesn't seem to be possible, which seems
> strange. This would be very helpful for us to have a floating gpu
> reservation.
>
>     Best,
>     Chris
>
>     --
>     Christopher Coffey
>     High-Performance Computing
>     Northern Arizona University
>     928-523-1167
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>     On 5/19/20, 1:47 PM, "slurm-users on behalf of Lisa Kay Weihl" <
> slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com on behalf of lweihl at bgsu.edu> wrote:
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>         I am a newbie at the Slurm setup but if by reservable you also
> mean a consumable resource I am able to request gpus and I have Slurm
> 20.02.1 and cuda 10.2.  I just set this up within the last month.
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>         Computer Science, Bowling Green State University
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>         Message: 1
>         Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 18:19:26 +0000
>         From: Christopher Benjamin Coffey <Chris.Coffey at nau.edu>
>         To: Slurm User Community List <slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com>
>         Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Reserving a GPU
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>         Hi All,
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>         Can anyone confirm that GPU is still not a reservable resource? It
> doesn't seem to be possible still in 19.05.6. I haven't tried 20.02 series.
>
>         Best,
>         Chris
>
>         --
>         Christopher Coffey
>         High-Performance Computing
>         Northern Arizona University
>         928-523-1167
>
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>         ?On 11/11/18, 1:19 AM, "slurm-users on behalf of Chris Samuel" <
> slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com on behalf of chris at csamuel.org>
> wrote:
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>             On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 5:30:31 AM AEDT Christopher
> Benjamin Coffey wrote:
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>             > Can anyone else confirm that it is not possible to reserve a
> GPU? Seems a
>             > bit strange.
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>             This looks like the bug that was referred to previously.
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>             Although looking at the manual page for scontrol in the
> current master it only says:
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>                    TRES=<tres_spec>
>                           Comma-separated list of TRES required for the
> reservation. Current
>                           supported TRES types with reservations are: CPU,
> Node, License and
>                           BB.
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>             But it's early days yet for that release..
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>             All the best,
>             Chris
>             --
>              Chris Samuel  :
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Regards.....
Sathish
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