[slurm-users] Limiting srun to a specific partition

[Rémi Palancher]

Hi Peter,

Le lundi 14 février 2022 à 18:37, Peter Schmidt <pschmidt at rivosinc.com> a écrit :

> slurm newbie here, converting from pbspro. In pbspro there is the capability of limiting interactive jobs (i.e srun) to a specific queue (i.e partition).

Note that in Slurm, srun and interactive jobs are not the same things. The srun command is for creating steps of jobs (interactive or not), optionally creating a job allocation beforehand if it does not exist.

You can run interactive jobs with salloc and even attach your PTY to a running batch job to interact with it. On the other hand, batchs jobs can create steps using srun command.

I don't know any native Slurm feature to restrict interactive jobs (to a specific partition or whatever). However, using job_submit LUA plugin and a custom LUA script, you might be able to accomplish what you are expecting. It has been discussed here:

https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3094

Best,
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Rémi Palancher
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