[slurm-users] Questions about SLURM configure options

[Paul H. Hargrove]

Elliot,

The proper use of `--with-pmix` is documented at
https://slurm.schedmd.com/mpi_guide.html

I don't know anything about your other questions.

-Paul

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 8:52 PM Elliott Slaughter <slaughter at cs.stanford.edu>
wrote:

> Oh, and also, does it matter if hwloc itself is built against CUDA/NVML or
> not? Will SLURM take advantage of that functionality if available, and if
> so what capabilities does it add?
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 8:28 PM Elliott Slaughter <
> slaughter at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have some questions about SLURM configuration options:
>>
>> --with-pmix
>>
>> I was confused about this because I thought that SLURM had its own
>> first-party PMIx implementation, but I can't see a configuration option to
>> control it. (And also, building without this option does not appear to
>> generate a PMIx library.)
>>
>> I was going to build against https://github.com/openpmix/openpmix, is
>> that how people normally do this?
>>
>> --with-nvml
>>
>> Is this required for GPU binding, or does it do something else? What
>> would I lose if I don't use this?
>>
>> --with-hwloc
>>
>> Similarly, I know what hwloc does, but what specific impact does this
>> have on SLURM? Do I lose CPU core binding if I don't compile this?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Elliott Slaughter
>>
>> "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
>> predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
>>
>
>
> --
> Elliott Slaughter
>
> "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
> predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
>


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