[slurm-users] scontrol create partition fails

[Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users]

Hi,

 

I need to temporarily dedicated one of our compute nodes to a single account. To do this, I was going to create a new partition but I’m running into an error where

 

scontrol create partition

 

outputs “scontrol: error: Invalid input: partition  Request aborted” regardless of what parameters I give it. As far as I can tell, this should be allowed; the man page for scontrol has a whole section titled “Partitions – Specficiations for Create, Update, and Delete Commands”. What am I missing?

 

Also, is there a better way to approach this? This is really just a one or two day thing and I’m a little surprised there’s no easy way to cordon off a node for a user or a project without spinning up an entire partition. Am I missing something obvious?

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Schneider, Gerald via slurm-users]

Hi Daniel,

 

you can create a reservation for the node for the said account.

 

Regards,

Gerald Schneider

 

 

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[Long, Daniel S. via slurm-users]

This looks perfect. Thank you very much.