[slurm-users] slurm jobs and and amount of licenses (matlab)

[Davide DelVento]

Are your licenses used only for the slurm cluster(s) or are they
shared with laptops, workstations and/or other computing equipment not
managed by slurm?
In the former case, the "local" licenses described in the
documentation will do the trick (but slurm does not automatically
enforce their use, so either strong user education is needed, or
further scripting). In the latter case, more work is needed. See my
other thread on this topic two weeks ago, which I plan to pick up
later this week.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 5:07 AM Josef Dvoracek <jose at fzu.cz> wrote:
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> hello @list!
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> anyone who was dealing with following scenario?
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> * we have limited amount of Matlab network licenses ( and various
> features have various amount of available seats, eg. machine learning: N
> licenses, Image_Toolbox: M licenses)
> * licenses are being used by slurm jobs and by individual users directly
> at their workstations (workstations are not under my control)
>
> Sometimes it happens, that licenses for certain feature, used in
> particular slurm job is already fully consumed, and job fails.
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> Is there any straightforward trick how to deal with that? Other than
> buying dedicated pool of licenses for our slurm-based data processing
> facility?
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> EG. let slurm job wait, until there is required license available?
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> cheers
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> josef
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