[slurm-users] How to checkout a slurm node?

[Joe Teumer]

I'm replying to the submission email, hopefully it works...

Thank you, the slurm reservation may be what we need.

The con is that scontrol is an admin utility and we would like the users to
manage their own reservations.
We would have to allow users access to scontrol.

Some context:
We have users utilizing slurm in 2 ways:

   1. automated
      1. using sbatch scripts
      2. jobs are scheduled and queued
      3. Prologslurmctld handles the following:
         1. automatically configures the node
         2. sets and verifies user BIOS settings using information from the
         sbatch script
         3. rebooting the node to have BIOS settings take effect
      2. interactive
      1. using salloc/srun commands to start a interactive bash terminal
      2. Users can use a remote KVM to directly access the node
      3. The direct access allows for reboots, entering the BIOS, running
      jobs via the KVM or SSH or SRUN

What kind of BIOS settings would a user need to change?

   1. F Clock, U Clock, Mem Clock, C states, Virtualization settings, and
   much more...


On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 4:00 PM Joe Teumer <joe.teumer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> How best for a user to check out a slurm node?
>
> Unfortunately, command 'salloc' doesn't appear to meet this need.
>
> Command `salloc --nodelist some_node --time 3:00:00`
> This gives the user a new shell and the user can use `srun` to start an
> interactive session.
>
> However, if the user needs to reboot the node, set BIOS settings, etc then
> `salloc` automatically terminates the allocation when the new shell  is
> closed.
>
> salloc: Relinquishing job allocation 82
> salloc: Job allocation 82 has been revoked.
>
> Ideally, if a user requests a node for a few hours then they can do all of
> their work in the allotted time (srun sessions, reboots, BIOS settings,
> etc) using a single job allocation.
>
> Also, how can I reply to posts and replies on
> https://groups.google.com/g/slurm-users/?
> The 'Reply all' and 'Reply to author' buttons on the site are greyed out.
>
> Much appreciated!
>
>
>
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