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DGIB

Reputation: 333

Specify multiple GRES type options in SLURM

I've been using SLURM to request specific GPUs, like so;

--gres=gpu:TYPE:1

On the cluster I'm using there are 4 different GPUs available, all with their specific gres types.

For some jobs I don't care which GPU is used, so I can specify:

--gres=gpu:1

However, sometimes I'd like to have some specific types, but among those dont really care about which one. Basically the first one that is available.

So I would hope to specify something like:

--gres=gpu:TYPE1:1 OR --gres=gpu:TYPE2:1

So that it would pick whichever is available first.

However, I've been unable to find such an option. This does option exist SLURM?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 1832

Answers (1)

damienfrancois
damienfrancois

Reputation: 59250

Contrarily to the --constraint option, the --gres option does not allow logical constructs. One option would be to submit two jobs and scancel the one that starts later.

Upvotes: 3

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