[slurm-users] Request nodes with a custom resource?

[Ward Poelmans]

Hi Xaver,

On 6/02/2023 08:39, Xaver Stiensmeier wrote:
> 
> How would you schedule a job (let's say using srun) to work on these
> nodes? Of course this would be interesting in a dynamic case, too
> (assuming that the database is downloaded to nodes during job
> execution), but for now I would be happy with a static solution (where
> it is okay to store a value before that says something like
> "hasDatabase=1" on nodes.

You could use features for that? A feature can be assigned to nodes and you can request nodes with specific feature for a job:

In slurm.conf:
NodeName=node001 CPUs=1 Feature=hasdatabase ...

And for your jobs:
sbatch --constraint=hasdatabase ...


Ward
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