[slurm-users] [External] What is an easy way to prevent users run programs on the master/login node.

[Stefan Staeglich]

Hi Mike,

thank you very much :)

Stefan

Am Montag, 7. Februar 2022, 16:50:54 CET schrieb Michael Robbert:
> They moved Arbiter2 to Github. Here is the new official repo:
> https://github.com/CHPC-UofU/arbiter2
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 2/7/22, 06:51, "slurm-users" <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com>
> wrote: Hi,
> 
> I've just noticed that the repository https://gitlab.chpc.utah.edu/arbiter2
> seems is down. Does someone know more?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Best,
> Stefan
> 
> Am Dienstag, 27. April 2021, 17:35:35 CET schrieb Prentice Bisbal:
> > I think someone asked this same exact question a few weeks ago. The best
> > solution I know of is to use Arbiter, which was created exactly for this
> > situation. It uses cgroups to limit resource usage, but it adjusts those
> > limits based on login node utilization and each users behavior ("bad"
> > users get their resources limited more severely when they do "bad" things.
> > 
> > I will be deploying it myself very soon.
> > 
> > https://dylngg.github.io/resources/arbiterTechPaper.pdf
> > <https://dylngg.github.io/resources/arbiterTechPaper.pdf><https://dylngg.g
> > ithub.io/resources/arbiterTechPaper.pdf%3e>
> > 
> > Prentice
> > 
> > On 4/23/21 10:37 PM, Cristóbal Navarro wrote:
> > > Hi Community,
> > > I have a set of users still not so familiar with slurm, and yesterday
> > > they bypassed srun/sbatch and just ran their CPU program directly on
> > > the head/login node thinking it would still run on the compute node. I
> > > am aware that I will need to teach them some basic usage, but in the
> > > meanwhile, how have you solved this type of user-behavior problem? Is
> > > there a preffered way to restrict the master/login resources, or
> > > actions,  to the regular users ?
> > > 
> > > many thanks in advance
> 
> --
> Stefan Stäglich,  Universität Freiburg,  Institut für Informatik
> Georges-Köhler-Allee,  Geb.52,   79110 Freiburg,    Germany
> 
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Stefan Stäglich,  Universität Freiburg,  Institut für Informatik
Georges-Köhler-Allee,  Geb.52,   79110 Freiburg,    Germany

E-Mail : staeglis at informatik.uni-freiburg.de
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