[slurm-users] GPU exclusively for one account

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 2/26/21 8:44 AM, Baldauf, Sebastian Martin wrote:
> I just want to ask if someone has an idea how to give a GPU and some
> CPUs of a node to one account exclusively but keep the remaining CPUs of
> this node available for all users.
> For me it looks like that using partitions is only working for whole
> nodes, while with reservation it is not possible to reserve a gpu.
> Our slurm version here is 17.11.5

You probably want to upgrade Slurm to 20.11 or 20.02 because of much 
improved GPU support in later versions.

Upgrading Slurm must be done in steps of 2 releases, see
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_installation#upgrading-slurm

/Ole