[Gimle-users] SLURM upgrade on Gimle

[Kent Engström]

kent at nsc.liu.se (Kent Engström) writes:
> Dear Gimle Users,
>
> there is a bug in the version of SLURM (the resource manager) used on
> Gimle at the moment, and it seems that this bug is fixed in a later
> version that is available.
>
> The bug causes problems with requeued "risk jobs" (the job starts on the
> wrong node and is killed when SLURM discovers its error).
>
> We will try to upgrade SLURM this afternoon. The upgrade should not
> affect running jobs, but the squeue/sbatch commands etc could hang
> during the short time while the upgrade is done.  We will tell you when
> we are done.

The upgrade has now been done.

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Kent Engström, National Supercomputer Centre
kent at nsc.liu.se, +46 13 28 4444