Spent last week fighting with issues on a slurm cluster, and having finally figured it out, I wanted to share the result (and a warning): I had been parallelizing through a slurm batch script with this call: julia --machinefile $SLURM_NODEFILE indiv_array.jl (For full script, see here ) Turns out…

Using srun should be fine since that is the correct way of starting a job. The workflow should work something like this: salloc | sbatch # create resources. julia> addprocs(SlurmManager(2)) # SlurmManager should inherit the outside allocation.

OH! So an srun executed inside a slurm allocation doesn’t try to create a new allocaiton; it start processes in that existing allocation?

Yes. See Slurm Workload Manager - srun Run a parallel job on cluster managed by Slurm. If necessary, srun will first create a resource allocation in which to run the parallel job. srun in general is the right way of starting jobs within an allocation and crucially within sbatch. https://slurm.s…

This conversation is revelatory. Thank you!!

Huh, I didn’t know that would work either. Awesome @vchuravy . One note: does default addprocs() do the correct thing like addprocs(SlurmManager(2)) when in a cluster job? What I mean is, does addprocs() automatically recognize that it should use the SlurmManager with 2 process when it’s called from…

That is asking to much. We would have to redefine addprocs when loading ClusterManager.

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