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Rasoul
Rasoul

Reputation: 73

How to run a job on a specific node using the slurm?

My original question is how to run the CVX toolbox (with academic license) on the cluster. I could not figure out a direct way of doing that and I have decided to tackle the problem in a different way.

The CVX license is hardware dependent and each academic license is tied to 4 hardwares. I want to add one of the nodes (maybe two) to the license list. For doing so, I need to run the CVX always on the same hardware or node (I know this might not be an efficient approach). Is there any way to do so?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 24526

Answers (1)

damienfrancois
damienfrancois

Reputation: 59130

If you are the administrator, you should defined a feature associated with the node(s) on which that software is installed (for instance feature=cvx, in slurm.conf) and ask users to submit jobs with --constraint=cvx.

If you are a regular user and cannot change the Slurm configuration, you can specify a specific node with --nodelist=..., or, if you need one among several, use --exclude=... with the list of all nodes that do not have CVX installed.

Upvotes: 16

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