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This file describes changes in recent versions of SLURM. It primarily
documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
* Changes in Slurm 13.12.0pre2
==============================
-- Added "JobAcctGatherParams" configuration parameter. Value of "NoShare"
disables accounting for shared memory.
-- Added fields to "scontrol show job" output: boards_per_node,
sockets_per_board, ntasks_per_node, ntasks_per_board, ntasks_per_socket,
ntasks_per_core, and nice.
-- Add squeue output format options for job command and working directory
(%o and %Z respectively).
-- Add stdin/out/err to sview job output.
-- Add new job_state of JOB_BOOT_FAIL for job terminations due to failure to
boot it's allocated nodes or BlueGene block.
* Changes in Slurm 13.12.0pre1
==============================
-- Add task pointer to the task_post_term() function in task plugins. The
terminating task's PID is available in task->pid.
-- Defer sending SIGKILL signal to processes while core dump in progress.
-- Added JobContainerPlugin configuration parameter and plugin infrastructure.
-- Added partition configuration parameters AllowAccounts, AllowQOS,
DenyAccounts and DenyQOS.
-- The rpmbuild option for a cray system with ALPS has changed from
%_with_cray to %_with_cray_alps.
-- The log file timestamp format can now be selected at runtime via the
LogTimeFormat configuration option. See the slurm.conf and slurmdbd.conf
man pages for details.
-- Added switch/generic plugin to a job's convey network topology.
-- BLUEGENE - If block is in 'D' state or has more cnodes in error than
MaxBlockInError set the job wait reason appropriately.
-- API use: Generate an error return rather than fatal error and exit if the
configuraiton file is absent or invalid. This will permit Slurm APIs to be
more reliably used by other programs.
-- Add support for load-based scheduling, allocate jobs to nodes with the
largest number of available CPUs. Added SchedulingParameters paramter of
"CR_LLN" and partition parameter of "LLN=yes|no".
-- Added job_info() and step_info() functions to the gres plugins to extract
plugin specific fields from the job's or step's GRES data structure.
-- Added sbatch --signal option of "B:" to signal the batch shell rather than
only the spawned job steps.
-- Added sinfo and squeue format option of "%all" to print all fields available
for the data type with a vertical bar separating each field.
-- Add mechanism for job_submit plugin to generate error message for srun,
salloc or sbatch to stderr. New argument added to job_submit function in
the plugin.
-- Add StdIn, StdOut, and StdErr paths to job information dumped with
"scontrol show job".
-- Permit Slurm administrator to submit a batch job as any user.
-- Set a job's RLIMIT_AS limit based upon it's memory limit and VsizeFactor
configuration value.
-- Remove Postgres plugins
-- Make jobacct_gather/cgroup work correctly and also make all jobacct_gather
plugins more maintainable.
-- Proctrack/pgid - Add support for proctrack_p_plugin_get_pids() function.
-- Sched/backfill - Change default max_job_bf parameter from 50 to 100.
-- Added -I|--item-extract option to sh5util to extract data item from series.
* Changes in Slurm 2.6.2
========================
-- Fix issue with reconfig and GrpCPURunMins
-- Fix of wrong node/job state problem after reconfig
-- Allow users who are coordinators update their own limits in the accounts
they are coordinators over.
-- BackupController - Make sure we have a connection to the DBD first thing
to avoid it thinking we don't have a cluster name.
-- Correct value of min_nodes returned by loading job information to consider
the job's task count and maximum CPUs per node.
-- If running jobacct_gather/none fix issue on unpacking step completion.
* Changes in Slurm 2.6.1
========================
-- slurmdbd - Allow job derived ec and comments to be modified by non-root
users.
-- Fix issue with job name being truncated to 24 chars when sending a mail
message.
-- Fix minor issues with spec file, missing files and including files
erroneously on a bluegene system.
-- sacct - fix --name and --partition options when using
accounting_storage/filetxt.
-- squeue - Remove extra whitespace of default printout.
-- BGQ - added head ppcfloor as an include dir when building.
-- BGQ - Better debug messages in runjob_mux plugin.
-- PMI2 Updated the Makefile.am to build a versioned library.
-- CRAY - Fix srun --mem_bind=local option with launch/aprun.
-- PMI2 Corrected buffer size computation in the pmi2_api.c module.
-- GRES accounting data wrong in database: gres_alloc, gres_req, and gres_used
fields were empty if the job was not started immediately.
-- Fix sbatch and srun task count logic when --ntasks-per-node specified,
but no explicit task count.
-- Corrected the hdf5 profile user guide and the acct_gather.conf
documentation.
-- IPMI - Fix Math bug getting new wattage.
-- Corrected the AcctGatherProfileType documentation in slurm.conf
-- Corrected the sh5util program to print the header in the csv file
only once, set the debug messages at debug() level, make the argument
check case insensitive and avoid printing duplicate \n.
-- If cannot collect energy values send message to the controller
to drain the node and log error slurmd log file.
-- Handle complete removal of CPURunMins time at the end of the job instead
of at multifactor poll.
-- sview - Add missing debug_flag options.
-- PGSQL - Notes about Postgres functionality being removed in the next
version of Slurm.
-- MYSQL - fix issue when rolling up usage and events happened when a cluster
was down (slurmctld not running) during that time period.
-- sched/wiki2 - Insure that Moab gets current CPU load information.
-- Prevent infinite loop in parsing configuration if including file containing
one blank line.
-- Fix pack and unpack between 2.6 and 2.5.
-- Fix job state recovery logic in which a job's accounting frequency was
not set. This would result in a value of 65534 seconds being used (the
equivalent of NO_VAL in uint16_t), which could result in the job being
requeued or aborted.
-- Validate a job's accounting frequency at submission time rather than
waiting for it's initiation to possibly fail.
-- Fix CPURunMins if a job is requeued from a failed launch.
-- Fix in accounting_storage/filetxt to correct start times which sometimes
could end up before the job started.
-- Fix issue with potentially referencing past an array in parse_time()
-- CRAY - fix issue with accelerators on a cray when parsing BASIL 1.3 XML.
-- Fix issue with a 2.5 slurmstepd locking up when talking to a 2.6 slurmd.
* Changes in Slurm 2.6.0
========================
-- Fix it so bluegene and serial systems don't get warnings over new NODEDATA
enum.
-- When a job is aborted send a message for any tasks that have completed.
-- Correction to memory per CPU calculation on system with threads and
allocating cores or sockets.
-- Requeue batch job if it's node reboots (used to abort the job).
-- Enlarge maximum size of srun's hostlist file.
-- IPMI - Fix first poll to get correct consumed_energy for a step.
-- Correction to job state recovery logic that could result in assert failure.
-- Record partial step accounting record if allocated nodes fail abnormally.
Francois Diakhate
committed
-- Accounting - fix issue where PrivateData=jobs or users could potentially
show information to users that had no associations on the system.
-- Make PrivateData in slurmdbd.conf case insensitive.
-- sacct/sstat - Add format option ConsumedEnergyRaw to print full energy
values.
* Changes in Slurm 2.6.0rc2
===========================
-- HDF5 - Fix issue with Ubuntu where HDF5 development headers are
overwritten by the parallel versions thus making it so we need handle
both cases.
-- ACCT_GATHER - handle suspending correctly for polling threads.
-- Make SLURM_DISTRIBUTION env var hold both types of distribution if
specified.
-- Remove hardcoded /usr/local from slurm.spec.
-- Modify slurmctld locking to improve performance under heavy load with
very large numbers of batch job submissions or job cancellations.
-- sstat - Fix issue where if -j wasn't given allow last argument to be checked
for as the job/step id.
-- IPMI - fix adjustment on poll when using EnergyIPMICalcAdjustment.
* Changes in Slurm 2.6.0rc1
===========================
-- Added helper script for launching symmetric and MIC-only MPI tasks within
SLURM (in contribs/mic/mpirun-mic).
-- Change maximum delay for state save from 2 secs to 5 secs. Make timeout
configurable at build time by defining SAVE_MAX_WAIT.
-- Modify slurmctld data structure locking to interleave read and write
locks rather than always favor write locks over read locks.
-- Added sacct format option of "ALL" to print all fields.
-- Deprecate the SchedulerParameters value of "interval" use "bf_interval"
instead as documented.
-- Add acct_gather_profile/hdf5 to profile jobs with hdf5
-- Added MaxCPUsPerNode partition configuration parameter. This can be
especially useful to schedule systems with GPUs.
-- Permit "scontrol reboot_node" for nodes in MAINT reservation.
-- Added "PriorityFlags" value of "SMALL_RELATIVE_TO_TIME". If set, the job's
size component will be based upon not the job size alone, but the job's
size divided by it's time limit.
Morris Jette
committed
-- Added sbatch option "--ignore-pbs" to ignore "#PBS" options in the batch
script.
-- Rename slurm_step_ctx_params_t field from "mem_per_cpu" to "pn_min_memory".
Job step now accepts memory specification in either per-cpu or per-node
basis.
-- Add ability to specify host repitition count in the srun hostfile (e.g.
"host1*2" is equivalent to "host1,host1").
* Changes in Slurm 2.6.0pre3
============================
-- Add milliseconds to default log message header (both RFC 5424 and ISO 8601
time formats). Disable milliseconds logging using the configure
parameter "--disable-log-time-msec". Default time format changes to
ISO 8601 (without time zone information). Specify "--enable-rfc5424time"
to restore the time zone information.
-- Add username (%u) to the filename pattern in the batch script.
-- Added options for front end nodes of AllowGroups, AllowUsers, DenyGroups,
and DenyUsers.
-- Fix sched/backfill logic to initiate jobs with maximum time limit over the
partition limit, but the minimum time limit permits it to start.
-- gres/gpu - Fix for gres.conf file with multiple files on a single line
using a slurm expression (e.g. "File=/dev/nvidia[0-1]").
-- Replaced ipmi.conf with generic acct_gather.conf file for all acct_gather
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