3 navsection: installguide
7 Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
9 SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
12 h2(#slurm). Set up SLURM
14 On the API server, install SLURM and munge, and generate a munge key.
16 On Debian-based systems:
19 <pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">sudo /usr/bin/apt-get install slurm-llnl munge</span>
20 ~$ <span class="userinput">sudo /usr/sbin/create-munge-key</span>
24 On Red Hat-based systems:
27 <pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">sudo yum install slurm munge slurm-munge</span>
31 Now we need to give SLURM a configuration file. On Debian-based systems, this is installed at @/etc/slurm-llnl/slurm.conf@. On Red Hat-based systems, this is installed at @/etc/slurm/slurm.conf@. Here's an example @slurm.conf@:
35 ControlMachine=uuid_prefix.your.domain
39 StateSaveLocation=/tmp
40 SlurmdSpoolDir=/tmp/slurmd
41 SwitchType=switch/none
43 SlurmctldPidFile=/var/run/slurmctld.pid
44 SlurmdPidFile=/var/run/slurmd.pid
45 ProctrackType=proctrack/pgid
48 TaskPlugin=task/affinity
59 SchedulerType=sched/backfill
61 SelectType=select/linear
69 JobCompType=jobcomp/none
71 JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/none
75 PartitionName=DEFAULT MaxTime=INFINITE State=UP
77 NodeName=compute[0-255]
78 PartitionName=compute Nodes=compute[0-255] Default=YES Shared=YES
82 h3. SLURM configuration essentials
84 Whenever you change this file, you will need to update the copy _on every compute node_ as well as the controller node, and then run @sudo scontrol reconfigure@.
86 *@ControlMachine@* should be a DNS name that resolves to the SLURM controller (dispatch/API server). This must resolve correctly on all SLURM worker nodes as well as the controller itself. In general SLURM is very sensitive about all of the nodes being able to communicate with the controller _and one another_, all using the same DNS names.
88 *@SelectType=select/linear@* is needed on cloud-based installations that update node sizes dynamically, but it can only schedule one container at a time on each node. On a static or homogeneous cluster, use @SelectType=select/cons_res@ with @SelectTypeParameters=CR_CPU_Memory@ instead to enable node sharing.
90 *@NodeName=compute[0-255]@* establishes that the hostnames of the worker nodes will be compute0, compute1, etc. through compute255.
91 * There are several ways to compress sequences of names, like @compute[0-9,80,100-110]@. See the "hostlist" discussion in the @slurm.conf(5)@ and @scontrol(1)@ man pages for more information.
92 * It is not necessary for all of the nodes listed here to be alive in order for SLURM to work, although you should make sure the DNS entries exist. It is easiest to define lots of hostnames up front, assigning them to real nodes and updating your DNS records as the nodes appear. This minimizes the frequency of @slurm.conf@ updates and use of @scontrol reconfigure@.
94 Each hostname in @slurm.conf@ must also resolve correctly on all SLURM worker nodes as well as the controller itself. Furthermore, the hostnames used in the configuration file must match the hostnames reported by @hostname@ or @hostname -s@ on the nodes themselves. This applies to the ControlMachine as well as the worker nodes.
97 * In @slurm.conf@ on control and worker nodes: @ControlMachine=uuid_prefix.your.domain@
98 * In @slurm.conf@ on control and worker nodes: @NodeName=compute[0-255]@
99 * In @/etc/resolv.conf@ on control and worker nodes: @search uuid_prefix.your.domain@
100 * On the control node: @hostname@ reports @uuid_prefix.your.domain@
101 * On worker node 123: @hostname@ reports @compute123.uuid_prefix.your.domain@
103 h3. Automatic hostname assignment
105 The API server will choose an unused hostname from the set given in @application.yml@, which defaults to @compute[0-255]@.
107 If it is not feasible to give your compute nodes hostnames like compute0, compute1, etc., you can accommodate other naming schemes with a bit of extra configuration.
109 If you want Arvados to assign names to your nodes with a different consecutive numeric series like @{worker1-0000, worker1-0001, worker1-0002}@, add an entry to @application.yml@; see @/var/www/arvados-api/current/config/application.default.yml@ for details. Example:
110 * In @application.yml@: <code>assign_node_hostname: worker1-%<slot_number>04d</code>
111 * In @slurm.conf@: <code>NodeName=worker1-[0000-0255]</code>
113 If your worker hostnames are already assigned by other means, and the full set of names is known in advance, have your worker node bootstrapping script (see "Installing a compute node":install-compute-node.html) send its current hostname, rather than expect Arvados to assign one.
114 * In @application.yml@: <code>assign_node_hostname: false</code>
115 * In @slurm.conf@: <code>NodeName=alice,bob,clay,darlene</code>
117 If your worker hostnames are already assigned by other means, but the full set of names is _not_ known in advance, you can use the @slurm.conf@ and @application.yml@ settings in the previous example, but you must also update @slurm.conf@ (both on the controller and on all worker nodes) and run @sudo scontrol reconfigure@ whenever a new node comes online.