[slurm-users] gres.conf and select/cons_res plugin

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

Please note that the on-line Slurm documentation refers to version 22.05 
(the latest version)!  For your outdated version 17.x you will have to 
find the old documentation.

Of course, upgrading to 22.05 is very strongly recommended!  Please note 
that you must upgrade by no more than 2 major releases at a time!!  See 
some notes in 
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_installation#upgrading-slurm

/Ole

On 9/13/22 23:04, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> I think reading the documentation is making me more confused; maybe this 
> has to do with version changes.  My current slurm cluster is using version 
> 17.x
> 
> Looking at the man page for gres.conf 
> (https://slurm.schedmd.com/gres.conf.html)  I see this:
> 
> NOTE: Slurm support for gres/[mps|shard] requires the use of the 
> select/cons_tres plugin.
> 
> On my current (inherited) Slurm cluster we have:
> 
>    SelectType=select/cons_res
> 
> but users are primarily using GPU resources, so I know Gres is working. 
> Why then is select/cons_tres required?