[slurm-users] Weirdness with partitions

[David]

I would think that slurm would only filter it out, potentially, if the
partition in question (b4) was marked as "hidden" and only accessible by
the correct account.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 3:11 AM Diego Zuccato <diego.zuccato at unibo.it>
wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> We have one partition (b4) that's reserved for an account while the
> others are "free for all".
> The problem is that
> sbatch --partition=b1,b2,b3,b4,b5 test.sh
> fails with
> sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Invalid account or
> account/partition combination specified
> while
> sbatch --partition=b1,b2,b3,b5 test.sh
> succeeds.
>
> Shouldn't Slurm (22.05.6) just "filter out" the inaccessible partition,
> considering only the others?
> Just like what it does if I'm requesting more cores than available on a
> node.
>
> I'd really like to avoid having to replicate scheduler logic in
> job_submit.lua... :)
>
> --
> Diego Zuccato
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>

-- 
David Rhey
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Advanced Research Computing
University of Michigan
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