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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 2.2.0.pre6
=============================
-- sview - added ability to see database configuration.
-- sview - added ability to remove visible tabs.
-- sview - change way grid highlighting takes place on selected objects.
-- Added infrastructure to support allocation of generic node resources.
-Added node configuration parameter of Gres=.
-Added ability to view/modify a node's gres using scontrol, sinfo and sview.
-Added salloc, sbatch and srun --gres option.
-Added ability to view a job or job step's gres using scontrol, squeue and
sview.
-Added new configuration parameter GresPlugins to define plugins used to
manage generic resources.
-- Slurmd modified to log slow slurmstepd startup and note possible file system
problem.
* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre5
=============================
-- Modify commands to accept time format with one or two digit hour value
-- Modify time parsing logic to accept "minute", "hour", "day", and "week" in
addition to the currently accepted "minutes", "hours", etc.
-- Add slurmd option of "-C" to print actual hardware configuration and exit.
-- Pass EnforcePartLimits configuration parameter from slurmctld for user
commands to see the correct value instead of always "NO".
-- Modify partition data structures to replace the default_part,
disable_root_jobs, hidden and root_only fields with a single field called
"flags" populated with the flags PART_FLAG_DEFAULT, PART_FLAG_NO_ROOT
PART_FLAG_HIDDEN and/or PART_FLAG_ROOT_ONLY. This is a more flexible
solution besides making for smaller data structures.
-- Add node state flag of JOB_RESIZING. This will only exist when a job's
accounting record is being written immediately before or after it changes
size. This permits job accounting records to be written for a job at each
size.
-- Make calls to jobcomp and accounting_storage plugins before and after a job
changes size (with the job state being JOB_RESIZING). All plugins write a
record for the job at each size with intermediate job states being
-- When changing a job size using scontrol, generate a script that can be
executed by the user to reset SLURM environment variables.
-- Modify select/linear and select/cons_res to use resources released by job
resizing.
-- Added to contribs foundation for Perl extension for slurmdb library.
-- Add new configuration parameter JobSubmitPlugins which provides a mechanism
to set default job parameters or perform other site-configurable actions at
job submit time.
-- Better postgres support for accounting, still beta.
-- Speed up job start when using the slurmdbd.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Forward step failure reason back to slurmd before in some cases it would
just be SLURM_FAILURE returned.
-- Changed squeue to fail when passed invalid -o <output_format> or
-S <sort_list> specifications.
* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre4
=============================
-- Add support for a PropagatePrioProcess configuration parameter value of 2
to restrict spawned task nice values to that of the slurmd daemon plus 1.
This insures that the slurmd daemon always have a higher scheduling
priority than spawned tasks.
-- Add support in slurmctld, slurmd and slurmdbd for option of "-n <value>" to
-- Fixed slurm_load_slurmd_status and slurm_pid2jobid to work correctly when
multiple slurmds are in use.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Altered srun to set max_nodes to min_nodes if not set when doing an
allocation to mimic that which salloc and sbatch do. If running a step if
the max isn't set it remains unset.
-- Applied patch from David Egolf (David.Egolf@Bull.com). Added the ability
to purge/archive accounting data on a day or hour basis, previously
it was only available on a monthly basis.
Moe Jette
committed
-- Add support for maximum node count in job step request.
-- Fix bug in CPU count logic for job step allocation (used count of CPUS per
node rather than CPUs allocated to the job).
-- Add new configuration parameters GroupUpdateForce and GroupUpdateTime.
See "man slurm.conf" for details about how these control when slurmctld
updates its information of which users are in the groups allowed to use
partitions.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Added sacctmgr list events which will list events that have happened on
clusters in accounting.
-- Permit a running job to shrink in size using a command of
"scontrol update JobId=# NumNodes=#" or
"scontrol update JobId=# NodeList=<names>". Subsequent job steps must
explicitly specify an appropriate node count to work properly.
-- Added resize_time field to job record noting the time of the latest job
size change (to be used for accounting purposes).
Danny Auble
committed
-- sview/smap now hides hidden partitions and their jobs by default, with an
option to display them.
* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre3
=============================
-- Refine support for TotalView partial attach. Add parameter to configure
program of "--enable-partial-attach".
-- In select/cons_res, the count of CPUs on required nodes was formerly
ignored in enforcing the maximum CPU limit. Also enforce maximum CPU
limit when the topology/tree plugin is configured (previously ignored).
-- In select/cons_res, allocate cores for a job using a best-fit approach.
-- In select/cons_res, for jobs that can run on a single node, use a best-fit
packing approach.
-- Add support for new partition states of DRAIN and INACTIVE and new partition
option of "Alternate" (alternate partition to use for jobs submitted to
partitions that are currently in a state of DRAIN or INACTIVE).
-- Add group membership cache. This can substantially speed up slurmctld
startup or reconfiguration if many partitions have AllowGroups configured.
-- Added slurmdb api for accessing slurm DB information.
-- In select/linear: Modify data structures for better performance and to
avoid underflow error messages when slurmctld restarts while jobs are
in completing state.
-- Added hash for slurm.conf so when nodes check in to the controller it can
verify the slurm.conf is the same as the one it is running. If not an
error message is displayed. To silence this message add NO_CONF_HASH
to DebugFlags in your slurm.conf.
-- Added error code ESLURM_CIRCULAR_DEPENDENCY and prevent circular job
dependencies (e.g. job 12 dependent upon job 11 AND job 11 is dependent
upon job 12).
-- Add BootTime and SlurmdStartTime to available node information.
-- Fixed moab_2_slurmdb to work correctly under new database schema.
-- Slurmd will drain a compute node when the SlurmdSpoolDir is full.
* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre2
=============================
-- Add support for spank_get_item() to get S_STEP_ALLOC_CORES and
S_STEP_ALLOC_MEM. Support will remain for S_JOB_ALLOC_CORES and
S_JOB_ALLOC_MEM.
-- Kill individual job steps that exceed their memory limit rather than
killing an entire job if one step exceeds its memory limit.
-- Added configuration parameter VSizeFactor to enforce virtual memory limits
for jobs and job steps as a percentage of their real memory allocation.
-- Add scontrol ability to update job step's time limits.
-- Add scontrol ability to update job's NumCPUs count.
-- Add --time-min options to salloc, sbatch and srun. The scontrol command
has been modified to display and modify the new field. sched/backfill
plugin has been changed to alter time limits of jobs with the
--time-min option if doing so permits earlier job initiation.
-- Add support for TotalView symbol MPIR_partial_attach_ok with srun support
to release processes which TotalView does not attach to.
-- Add new option for SelectTypeParameters of CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE. This
option will allocate one task per core by default. Without this option,
by default one task will be allocated per thread on nodes with more than
one ThreadsPerCore configured.
-- Avoid accounting separately for a current pid corresponds to a Light Weight
Process (Thread POSIX) appearing in the /proc directory. Only account for
the original process (pid==tgid) to avoid accounting for memory use more
than once.
-- Add proctrack/cgroup plugin which uses Linux control groups (aka cgroup)
to track processes on Linux systems having this feature enabled (kernel
>= 2.6.24).
-- Add logging of license transations including job_id.
-- Add configuration parameters SlurmSchedLogFile and SlurmSchedLogLevel to
support writing scheduling events to a separate log file.
-- Added contribs/web_apps/chart_stats.cgi, a web app that invokes sreport to
retrieve from the accounting storage db a user's request for job usage or
machine utilization statistics and charts the results to a browser.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Massive change to the schema in the storage_accounting/mysql plugin. When
starting the slurmdbd the process of conversion may take a few minutes.
You might also see some errors such as 'error: mysql_query failed: 1206
The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size'. If you get this,
do not worry, it is because your setting of innodb_buffer_pool_size in
your my.cnf file is not set or set too low. A decent value there should
be 64M or higher depending on the system you are running on. See
RELEASE_NOTES for more information. But setting this and then
restarting the mysqld and slurmdbd will put things right. After this
change we have noticed 50-75% increase in performance with sreport and
sacct.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Fix for MaxCPUs to honor partitions of 1 node that have more than the
maxcpus for a job.
-- Add support for "scontrol notify <message>" to work for batch jobs.
-- Added SLURM_VERSION_NUMBER and removed SLURM_API_VERSION from
slurm/slurm.h.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Added support to handle communication with SLURM 2.1 clusters. Job's
should not be lost in the future when upgrading to higher versions of
SLURM.
-- Added withdeleted options for listing clusters, users, and accounts
-- Remove PLPA task affinity functions due to that package being deprecated.
-- Preserve current partition state information and node Feature and Weight
information rather than use contents of slurm.conf file after slurmctld
restart with -R option or SIGHUP. Replace information with contents of
slurm.conf after slurmctld restart without -R or "scontrol reconfigure".
See RELEASE_NOTES file fore more details.
-- Modify SLURM's PMI library (for MPICH2) to properly execute an executable
program stand-alone (single MPI task launched without srun).
-- Made GrpCPUs and MaxCPUs limits work for select/cons_res.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Moved all SQL dependant plugins into a seperate rpm slurm-sql. This
should be needed only where a connection to a database is needed (i.e.
where the slurmdbd is running)
-- Add command line option "no_sys_info" to PAM module to supress system
logging of "access granted for user ...", access denied and other errors
will still be logged.
Danny Auble
committed
-- sinfo -R now has the user and timestamp in separate fields from the reason.
-- Much functionality has been added to account_storage/pgsql. The plugin
is still in a very beta state. It is still highly advised to use the
mysql plugin, but if you feel like living on the edge or just really
like postgres over mysql for some reason here you go. (Work done
primarily by Hongjia Cao, NUDT.)
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.8
========================
-- Update BUILD_NOTES for AIX and bgp systems on how to get sview to
build correctly.
-- Update man page for scontrol when nodes are in the "MIXED" state.
-- Better error messages for sacctmgr.
-- Fix bug in allocation of CPUs with select/cons_res and --cpus-per-task
option.
-- Fix bug in dependency support for afterok and afternotok options to insure
that the job's exit status gets checked for dependent jobs prior to puring
completed job records.
-- Fix bug in sched/backfill that could set an incorrect expected start time
for a job.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.7
========================
-- Modify srun, salloc and sbatch parsing for the --signal option to accept
either a signal name in addition to the previously supported signal
numbers (e.g. "--signal=USR2@200").
-- BLUEGENE - Fixed sinfo --long --Node output for cpus on a single cnode.
-- In sched/wiki2 - Fix another logic bug in support of Moab being able to
identify preemptable jobs.
-- In sched/wiki2 - For BlueGene systems only: Fix bug preventing Moab from
being able to correctly change the node count of pending jobs.
-- In select/cons_res - Fix bug preventing job preemption with a configuration
of Shared=FORCE:1 and PreemptMode=GANG,SUSPEND.
-- In the TaskProlog, add support for an "unset" option to clear environment
variables for the user application. Also add support for embedded white-
space in the environment variables exported to the user application
(everything after the equal sign to the end of the line is included without
alteration).
-- Do not install /etc/init.d/slurm or /etc/init.d/slurmdbd on AIX systems.
-- BLUEGENE - fixed check for small blocks if a node card of a midplane is
in an error state other jobs can still run on the midplane on other
nodecards.
-- BLUEGENE - Check to make sure job killing is in the active job table in
DB2 when killing the job.
-- Correct logic to support ResvOverRun configuration parameter.
-- Get --acctg-freq option working for srun and salloc commands.
-- Fix sinfo display of drained nodes correctly with the summarize flag.
-- Fix minor memory leaks in slurmd and slurmstepd.
-- Better error messages for failed step launch.
-- Modify srun to insure compatability of the --relative option with the node
count requested.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.6-2
==========================
-- In sched/wiki2 - Fix logic in support of Moab being able to identify
preemptable jobs.
-- Applied fixes to a debug4 message in priority_multifactor.c sent in by
Per Lundqvist
-- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where incorrect nodecards could be picked when
looking at combining small blocks to make a larger small block.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.6
========================
-- For newly submitted jobs, report expected start time in squeue --start as
"N/A" rather than current time.
-- Correct sched/backfill logic so that it runs in a more timely fashion.
-- Fixed issue if running on accounting cache and priority/multifactor to
initialize the root association when the database comes back up.
Moe Jette
committed
-- Emulated BLUEGENE - fixed issue where blocks weren't always created
correctly when loading from state. This does not apply to a real
bluegene system, only emulated.
-- Fixed bug when job is completing and its cpu_cnt would be calculated
incorrectly, possibly resulting in an underflow being logged.
-- Fixed bug where if there are pending jobs in a partition which was
updated to have no nodes in it the slurmctld would dump core.
-- Fixed smap and sview to display partitions with no nodes in them.
-- Improve configure script's logic to detect LUA libraries.
-- Fix bug that could cause slurmctld to abort if select/cons_res is used AND a
job is submitted using the --no-kill option AND one of the job's nodes goes
DOWN AND slurmctld restarts while that job is still running.
-- In jobcomp plugins, job time limit was sometimes recorded improperly if not
set by user (recorded huge number rather than partition's time limit).
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.5
========================
-- BLUEGENE - Fixed display of draining nodes for sinfo -R.
-- Fixes to scontrol and sview when setting a job to an impossible start time.
-- Added -h to srun for help.
-- Fix for sacctmgr man page to remove erroneous 'with' statements.
-- Fix for unpacking jobs with accounting statistics, previously it appears
only steps were unpacked correctly, for the most case sacct would only
display this information making this fix a very minor one.
-- Changed scontrol and sview output for jobs with unknown end times from
'NONE' to 'Unknown'.
-- Fixed mysql plugin to reset classification when adding a
previously deleted cluster.
-- Permit a batch script to reset umask and have that propagate to tasks
spawed by subsequent srun. Previously the umask in effect when sbatch was
executed was propagated to tasks spawed by srun.
-- Modify slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node_id() and
slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node() functions to not write explanation of
failures to stderr. Only return -1 and set errno.
-- Correction in configurator.html script. Prolog and Epilog were reversed.
-- BLUEGENE - Fixed race condition where if a nodecard has an error on an
un-booted block when a job comes to use it before the state checking
thread notices it which could cause the slurmctld to lock up on a
non-dynamic system.
-- In select/cons_res with FastSchedule=0 and Procs=# defined for the node,
but no specific socket/core/thread count configured, avoid fatal error if
the number of cores on a node is less than the number of Procs configured.
-- Added ability for the perlapi to utilize opaque data types returned from
the C api.
-- BLUEGENE - made the perlapi get correct values for cpus per node,
Previously it would give the number of cpus per cnode instead of midplane.
-- BLEUGENE - Fixed issue where if a block being selected for a job to use
and during the process a hardware failure happens, previously the block
would still be allowed to be used which would fail or requeue the job
depending on the configuration.
-- For SPANK job environment, avoid duplicate "SPANK_" prefix for environment
set by sbatch jobs.
-- Make squeue select jobs on hidden partitions when requesting more than one.
-- Avoid automatically cancelling job steps when all of the tasks on some node
have gracefully terminated.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.4
========================
-- Fix for purge script in accounting to use correct options.
-- If SelectType=select/linear and SelectTypeParameters=CR_Memory fix bug that
would fail to release memory reserved for a job if "scontrol reconfigure"
is executed while the job is in completing state.
-- Fix bug in handling event trigger for job time limit while job is still
in pending state.
-- Fixed display of Ave/MaxCPU in sacct for jobs. Steps were printed
correctly.
-- When node current features differs from slurm.conf, log the node names
using a hostlist expression rather than listing individual node names.
-- Improve ability of srun to abort job step for some task launch failures.
-- Fix mvapich plugin logic to release the created job allocation on
initialization failure (previously the failures would cancel job step,
but retain job allocation).
-- Fix bug in srun for task count so large that it overflows int data type.
-- Fix important bug in select/cons_res handling of ntasks-per-core parameter
that was uncovered by a bug fixed in v2.1.3. Bug produced fatal error for
slurmctld: "cons_res: cpus computation error".
-- Fix bug in select/cons_res handling of partitions configured with
Shared=YES. Prior logic failed to support running multiple jobs per node.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.3-2
==========================
-- Modified spec file to obsolete pam_slurm when installing
the slurm-pam_slurm rpm.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.3-1
==========================
-- BLUEGENE - Fix issues on static/overlap systems where if a midplane
was drained you would not be able to create new blocks on it.
-- In sched/wiki2 (for Moab): Add excluded host list to job information
using new keyword "EXCLUDE_HOSTLIST".
-- Correct slurmd reporting of incorrect socket/core/thread counts.
-- For sched/wiki2 (Moab): Do not extend a job's end time for suspend/resume
or startup delay due to node boot time. A job's end time will always be
its start time plus time limit.
-- Added build-time option (to configure program) of --with-pam_dir to
specify the directory into which PAM modules get installed, although it
should pick the proper directory by default. "make install" and "rpmbuild"
should now put the pam_slurm.so file in the proper directory.
-- Modify PAM module to link against SLURM API shared library and use exported
slurm_hostlist functions.
-- Do not block new jobs with --immediate option while another job is in the
process of being requeued (which can take a long time for some node failure
modes).
-- For topology/tree, log invalid hostnames in a single hostlist expression
rather than one per line.
-- A job step's default time limit will be UNLIMITED rather than partition's
default time limit. The step will automatically be cancelled as part of the
job termination logic when the job's time limit is reached.
-- sacct - fixed bug when checking jobs against a reservation
-- In select/cons_res, fix support for job allocation with --ntasks_per_node
option. Previously could allocate too few CPUs on some nodes.
-- Adjustment made to init message to the slurmdbd to allow backwards
compatibility with future 2.2 release. YOU NEED TO UPGRADE SLURMDBD
BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.
-- Fix accounting when comment of down/drained node has double quotes in it.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.2
========================
-- Added nodelist to sview for jobs on non-bluegene systems
-- Correction in value of batch job environment variable SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE
under some conditions.
-- When a node silently fails which is already drained/down the reason
for draining for the node is not changed.
-- Srun will ignore SLURM_NNODES environment variable and use the count of
currently allocated nodes if that count changes during the job's lifetime
(e.g. job allocation uses the --no-kill option and a node goes DOWN, job
step would previously always fail).
-- Made it so sacctmgr can't add blank user or account. The MySQL plugin
will also reject such requests.
-- Revert libpmi.so version for compatibility with SLURM version 2.0 and
earlier to avoid forcing applications using a specific libpmi.so version to
rebuild unnecessarily (revert from libpmi.so.21.0.0 to libpmi.so.0.0.0).
-- Restore support for a pending job's constraints (required node features)
when slurmctld is restarted (internal structure needed to be rebuilt).
-- Removed checkpoint_blcr.so from the plugin rpm in the slurm.spec since
it is also in the blcr rpm.
-- Fixed issue in sview where you were unable to edit the count
of jobs to share resources.
-- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where tasks on steps weren't being displayed
correctly with scontrol and sview.
-- BLUEGENE - fixed wiki2 plugin to report correct task count for pending
jobs.
-- BLUEGENE - Added /etc/ld.so.conf.d/slurm.conf to point to the
directory holding libsched_if64.so when building rpms.
-- Adjust get_wckeys call in slurmdbd to allow operators to list wckeys.
========================
Danny Auble
committed
-- Fix for case sensitive databases when a slurmctld has a mixed case
clustername to lower case the string to easy compares.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Fix squeue if job is completing and failed to print remaining
nodes instead of failed message.
-- Fix sview core when searching for partitions by state.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Fixed setting the start time when querying in sacct to the
beginning of the day if not set previously.
-- Defined slurm_free_reservation_info_msg and slurm_free_topo_info_msg
in common/slurm_protocol_defs.h
-- Avoid generating error when a job step includes a memory specification and
memory is not configured as a consumable resource.
-- Patch for small memory leak in src/common/plugstack.c
-- Fix bug in which improperly formed job dependency specification can cause
slurmctld to abort.
-- Fixed issue where slurmctld wouldn't always get a message to send cluster
information when registering for the first time with the slurmdbd.
-- Add slurm_*_trigger.3 man pages for event trigger APIs.
-- Fix bug in job preemption logic that would free allocated memory twice.
-- Fix spelling issues (from Gennaro Oliva)
-- Fix issue when changing parents of an account in accounting all childern
weren't always sent to their respected slurmctlds until a restart.
-- Restore support for srun/salloc/sbatch option --hint=nomultithread to
bind tasks to cores rather than threads (broken in slurm v2.1.0-pre5).
-- Fix issue where a 2.0 sacct could not talk correctly to a 2.1 slurmdbd.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix issue where no partitions have any nodes assigned them to
alert user no blocks can be created.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix smap to put BGP images when using -Dc on a Blue Gene/P
system.
-- Set SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR environment variable for srun and salloc commands to
match behavior of sbatch command.
-- Report WorkDir from "scontrol show job" command for jobs launched using
salloc and srun.
-- Update correctly the wckey when changing it on a pending job.
-- Set wckeyid correctly in accounting when cancelling a pending job.
-- BLUEGENE - critical fix where jobs would be killed incorrectly.
-- BLUEGENE - fix for sview putting multiple ionodes on to nodelists when
viewing the jobs tab.
========================
-- Improve sview layout of blocks in use.
-- A user can now change the dimensions of the grid in sview.
-- BLUEGENE - improved startup speed further for large numbers of defined
blocks
-- Fix to _get_job_min_nodes() in wiki2/get_jobs.c suggested by Michal Novotny
-- BLUEGENE - fixed issues when updating a pending job when a node
count was incorrect for the asked for connection type.
Danny Auble
committed
-- BLUEGENE - fixed issue when combining blocks that are in ready states to
make a larger block from those or make multiple smaller blocks by
splitting the larger block. Previously this would only work with block
in a free state.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Fix bug in wiki(2) plugins where if HostFormat=2 and the task list is
greater than 64 we don't truncate. Previously this would mess up Moab
by sending a truncated task list when doing a get jobs.
-- Added update slurmctld debug level to sview when in admin mode.
-- Added logic to make sure if enforcing a memory limit when using the
jobacct_gather plugin a user can no longer turn off the logic to enforce
the limit.
-- Replaced many calls to getpwuid() with reentrant uid_to_string()
Danny Auble
committed
-- The slurmstepd will now refresh it's log file handle on a reconfig,
previously if a log was rolled any output from the stepd was lost.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre9
=============================
-- Added the "scontrol update SlurmctldDebug" as the preferred alternative to
the "scontrol setdebug" command.
Danny Auble
committed
-- BLUEGENE - made it so when removing a block in an error state the nodes in
the block are set correctly in accounting as not in error.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Fixed issue where if slurmdbd is not up qos' are set up correctly for
-- scontrol, squeue, sview all display the correct node, cpu count along with
correct corresponding nodelist on completing jobs.
-- Patch (Mark Grondona) fixes serious security vulnerability in SLURM in
the spank_job_env functionality.
-- Improve spank_job_env interface and documentation
-- Add ESPANK_NOT_LOCAL error code to spank_err_t
-- Made the #define DECAY_INTERVAL used in the priority/multifactor plugin
a slurm.conf variable (PriorityCalcPeriod)
Danny Auble
committed
-- Added new macro SLURM_VERSION for use in autoconf scripts to determine
current version of slurm installed on system when building against the api.
-- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux that adds an entry into the error file when
a job or step receives a TERM or KILL signal.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Make it so env var SLURM_SRUN_COMM_HOST is overwritten if already in
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre8
=============================
-- Rearranged the "scontrol show job" output into functional groupings
-- Change the salloc/sbatch/srun -P option to -d (dependency)
-- Removed the srun -d option; must use srun --slurmd-debug instead
-- When running the mysql plugin natively MUNGE errors are now eliminated
when sending updates to slurmctlds.
-- Check to make sure we have a default account before looking to
fill in default association.
-- Accounting - Slurmctld and slurmdbd will now set uids of users which were
created after the start of the daemons on reconfig. Slurmdbd will
attempt to set previously non-existant uids every hour.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Patch from Aaron Knister and Mark Grondona, to parse correctly quoted
#SBATCH options in a batch script.
-- job_desc_msg_t - in, out, err have been changed to std_in, std_out,
and std_err respectfully. Needed for PySLURM, since Python sees (in)
as a keyword.
-- Changed the type of addr to struct sockaddr_in in _message_socket_accept()
Danny Auble
committed
in sattach.c, step_launch.c, and allocate_msg.c, and moved the function
into a common place for all the calls since the code was very similar.
-- proctrack/lua support has been added see contribs/lua/protrack.lua
-- replaced local gtk m4 test with AM_PATH_GTK_2_0
-- changed AC_CHECK_LIB to AC_SEARCH_LIBS to avoid extra libs in
compile lines.
-- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux to improve error message in slurmd/req.c
-- Added support for split groups from (Matthiu Hautreux CEA)
-- Patch from Mark Grondona to move blcr scripts into pkglibexecdir
-- Patch from Doug Parisek to calculate a job's projected start time under the
builtin scheduler.
-- Removed most global variables out of src/common/jobacct_common.h
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre7
=============================
Danny Auble
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-- BLUEGENE - make 2.1 run correctly on a real bluegene cluster
-- sacctmgr - Display better debug for when an admin specifies a non-existant
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parent account when changing parent accounts.
-- Added a mechanism to the slurmd to defer the epilog from starting until
after a running prolog has finished.
-- If a node reboots inbetween checking status the node is marked down unless
ReturnToService=2
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-- Added -R option to slurmctld to recover partition state also when
restarting or reconfiguring.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre6
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-- When getting information about nodes in hidden partitions, return a node
name of NULL rather than returning no information about the node so that
node index information is still valid.
-- When querying database for jobs in certain state and a time period is
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given only jobs in that state during the period will be returned,
previously if a time period was given in sacct jobs eligible to run or
running would be displayed, which is still the default if no states are
requested.
-- One can now query jobs based on size (nodes and or cpus) (mysql plugin only)
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-- Applied patch from Mark Grondona that tests for a missing config file before
any other processing in spank_init(). This now prevents fatal errors from
being mistakenly treated as recoverable.
-- --enable-debug no longer has to be stated at configure time to have
the slurmctld or slurmstepd dump core on a seg fault.
-- Moved the errant slurm_job_node_ready() declaration from job_info.h to
slurm.h and deleted job_info.h.
slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node() API for working with the
job_resources_t structure.
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-- BLUEGENE - speed up start up for systems that have many blocks (100+)
configured on the system.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre5
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-- Add squeue option "--start" to report expected start time of pending jobs.
-- Sched/backfill plugin modified to set expected start time of pending jobs.
-- Add SchedulerParameters option of "max_job_bf=#" to control how far down
the queue of pending jobs that SLURM searches in an attempt backfill
schedule them. The default value is 50 jobs.
-- Fixed cause of squeue -o "%C" seg fault.
-- Add -"-signal=<int>@<time>" option to salloc, sbatch and srun commands to
notify programs before reaching the end of their time limit.
-- Add scontrol option to update a running job's EndTime (also resets the
job's time limit).
-- Add new job wait reason, ReqNodeNotAvail: Required node is not available
(down or drained).
-- Log when slurmctld or slurmd are started with small core file limit.
-- Permit job's owner to change features, processor count, minimum and
maximun node counts of pending jobs (the operation was previously
restricted to user root)
-- Applied patch from Chuck Clouston for scontrol man page with clarifications
and additional info
-- Change slurm errno name from ESLURM_TOO_MANY_REQUESTED_NODES to
ESLURM_INVALID_NODE_COUNT to better reflect its meaning.
-- Fix bug in sched/backfill which could result in invalid memory reference
when trying to schedule jobs submitted with --exclude option.
-- Fix for slurmctld deadlock at startup with PreemptMode=SUSPEND,GANG.
-- Completely disable logging of sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui & Moab)
message traffic unless DebugFlag=Wiki is configured.
-- Change scontrol show job info: ReqProcs (number of processors requested)
is replaced by NumProcs (number of processors requested or actually
allocated) and ReqNodes (number of nodes requested) is replaced by
NumNodes (number of nodes requested or actually allocated).
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-- Fixed issue when max nodes wasn't specified and was later set by limit
to not request that as the actual maximum.
-- Move job preemption (for requeue, checkpoint and kill modes only) out of
gang scheduling module. Make identification of preemptable jobs an argument
to the select_g_job_test function rather than calling preempt plugin from
the select plugin. Make output of srun --test-only option include a list
of preempted job IDs.
-- Better record keeping for front end systems when registering.
-- Enable memory allocation logic for jobs step (i.e. allocate resources
within the job's memory allocation and enforce limits).
-- sview and "scontrol show config" now report as SLURM_VERSION the version
of slurmctld rather than that of the command.
-- Change SuspendTime configuration parameter from 16-bits to 32-bits.
-- Add environment variable support to sattach, salloc, sbatch and srun
to permit user control over exit codes so application exit codes can be
distiguished from those generated by SLURM. SLURM_EXIT_ERROR specifies the
exit code when a SLURM error occurs. SLURM_EXIT_IMMEDIATE specifies the
exit code when the --immediate option is specified and resources are not
available. Any other non-zero exit code would be that of the application
run by SLURM.
-- Added a Quality of Service (QOS) html page.
-- In sched/wiki2, JOBWILLRUN command, add support for identification of
preemptable and preempted jobs (both new and old format of commands are
supported).
-- Remove contribs/python/hostlist files. Download the materials as needed
directly from http://www.nsc.liu.se/~kent/python-hostlist.
-- BLUEGENE - Preemption now works on bluegene systems
-- For salloc, sbatch and srun commands, ignore _maximum_ values for
--sockets-per-node, --cores-per-socket and --threads-per-core options.
Remove --mincores, --minsockets, --minthreads options (map them to
minimum values of -sockets-per-node, --cores-per-socket and
--threads-per-core for now).
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* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre4
=============================
-- Move processing of node configuration information in slurm.conf and
topology information in topology.conf from slurmctld into common and load
that information into slurmd. Use it to set environment variables for jobs
SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR and SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR_PATTERN describing the network
topology for each task. Based upon patch from Mattheu Hautreux (CEA).
-- Correction in computing a job's TotalProcs value when ThreadsPerCore>1 and
allocating by cores or sockets.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre3
=============================
-- Removed sched/gang plugin and moved the logic directly into the slurmctld
daemon so that job preemption and gang scheduling can be used with the
sched/backfill plugin. Added configuration parameter:
PreemptMode=gang|off|suspend|cancel|requeue|checkpoint
to enable/disable gang scheduling and job preemption logic (both are
disabled by default).
(NOTE: There are some problems with memory management which could prevent a
job from starting when memory would be freed by a job being requeued or
otherwise removed, these are being worked on)
-- Added PreemptType configuration parameter to identify preemptable jobs.
Former users of SchedType=sched/gang should set SchedType=sched/backfill,
PreemptType=preempt/partition_prio and PreemptMode=gang,suspend. See
web and slurm.conf man page for other options.
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PreemptType=preempt/qos uses Quality Of Service information in database.
-- In select/linear, optimize job placement across partitions.
-- If the --partition option is used with the sinfo or squeue command then
print information about even hidden partitions.
-- Replaced misc cpu allocation members in job_info_t with select_job_res_t
which will only be populated when requested (show_flags & SHOW_DETAIL)
-- Added a --detail option to "scontrol show job" to display the cpu/mem
allocation info on a node-by-node basis.
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-- Added logic to give correct request uid for individual steps that
were cancelled.
-- Created a spank_get_item() option (S_JOB_ALLOC_MEM) that conveys the memory
that the select/cons_res plugin has allocated to a job.
-- BLUEGENE - blocks in error state are now handled correctly in accounting.
-- Modify squeue to print job step information about a specific job ID using
the following syntax: "squeue -j <job_id> -s".
-- BLUEGENE - scontrol delete block and update block can now remove blocks
on dynamic laid out systems.
-- BLUEGENE - Vastly improve Dynamic layout mode algorithm.
-- Address some issues for SLURM support of Solaris.
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-- Applied patch from Doug Parisek (Doug.Parisek@bull.com) for speeding up
start of sview by delaying to creation of tooltips until requested.
-- Changed GtkToolTips to GtkToolTip for newer versions of GTK.
-- Applied patch from Rod Schultz (Rod.Schultz@Bull.com) that eliminates
ambiguity in the documentation over use of the terms "CPU" and "socket".
-- Modified get_resource_arg_range() to return full min/max values when input
string is null. This fixes the srun -B option to function as documented.
-- If the job, node, partition, reservation or trigger state file is missing
or too small, automatically try using the previously saved state (file
name with ".old" suffix).
-- Set a node's power_up/configuring state flag while PrologSlurmctld is
running for a job allocated to that node.
-- If PrologSlurmctld has a non-zero exit code, requeue the job or kill it.
-- Added sacct ability to use --format NAME%LENGTH similar to sacctmgr.
-- Improve hostlist logic for multidimensional systems.
-- The pam_slurm Pluggable Authentication Module for SLURM previously
distributed separately has been moved within the main SLURM distribution
and is packaged as a separate RPM.
-- Added configuration parameter MaxTasksPerNode.
-- Remove configuration parameter SrunIOTimeout.
-- Added functionality for sacctmgr show problems. Current problems include
Accounts/Users with no associations, Accounts with no users or subaccounts
attached in a cluster, and Users with No UID on the system.
-- Added new option for sacctmgr list assoc and list cluster WOLimits. This
gives a smaller default format without the limit information. This may
be the new default for list assocations and list clusters.
-- Users are now required to have an association with there default account.
Sacctmgr will now complain when you try to modify a users default account
which they are not associated anywhere.
-- Fix select/linear bug resulting in run_job_cnt underflow message if a
suspended job is cancelled.
-- Add test for fsync() error for state save files. Log and retry as needed.
-- Log fatal errors from slurmd and slurmctld to syslog.
-- Added error detection and cleanup for the case in which a compute node is
rebooted and restarts its slurmd before its "down" state is noticed.
-- BLUEGENE systems only - remove vestigal start location from jobinfo.
-- Add reservation flag of "OVERLAP" to permit a new reservation to use
nodes already in another reservation.
-- Fix so "scontrol update jobid=# nice=0" can clear previous nice value.
-- BLUEGENE - env vars such as SLURM_NNODES, SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES, and
SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE now reference cnode counts instead of midplane
counts. SLURM_NODELIST still references midplane names.
-- Added qos support to salloc/sbatch/srun/squeue
-- Added to scancel the ability to select jobs by account and qos
-- Recycled the "-A" argument indicate "account" for all the commands that
accept the --account argument (srun -A to allocate is no longer supported.)
-- Change sbatch response from "sbatch: Submitted batch job #" written to
stderr to "Submitted batch job #" written to stdout.
-- Made shutdown and cleanup a little safer for the mvapich and mpich1_p4
plugins.
-- QOS support added with limits, priority and preemption
(no documentation yet).
-- If a slurmd does not have a node listed in it's slurm.conf (slurm.conf's
should be kept the same on all nodes) an error message is printed in the
slurmctld log along with the message already being printed in the slurmd
log for easier debugging.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre2
=============================
-- Added support for smap to query off node name for display.
-- Slurmdbd modified to set user ID and group ID to SlurmUser if started as
user root.
-- Configuration parameter ControlMachine changed to accept multiple comma-
separated hostnames for support of some high-availability architectures.
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-- ALTERED API CALL slurm_get_job_steps 0 has been changed to NO_VAL for both
job and step id to recieve all jobs/steps. Please make adjustments to
your code.
-- salloc's --wait=<secs> option deprecated by --immediate=<secs> option to
match the srun command.
-- Add new slurmctld list for node features with node bitmaps for simplified
scheduling logic.
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-- Multiple features can be specified when creating a reservation. Use "&"
(AND) or "|" (OR) separators between the feature names.
-- Changed internal node name caching so that front-end mode would work with
multiple lines of node name definitions.
-- Add node state flag for power-up/configuring. Represented by "#" suffix
on the node state name (e.g. "ALLOCATED#") for command output.
-- Add CONFIGURING/CF job state flag for node power-up/configuring.
-- Modify job step cancel logic for scancel and srun (on reciept of SIGTERM
or three SIGINT) to immediately send SIGKILL to spawned tasks. Previous
logic would send SIGCONT, SIGTERM, wait KillWait seconds, SIGKILL.
-- Created a spank_get_item() option (S_JOB_ALLOC_CORES) that conveys the cpus
that the select/cons_res plugin has allocated to a job.
-- Improve sview performance (outrageously) on very large machines.
-- Add support for licenses in resource reservation.
-- BLUEGENE - Jobs waiting for a block to boot will now be in Configuring
state.
-- bit_fmt now does not return brackets surrounding any set of data.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre1
=============================
-- Slurmd notifies slurmctld of node boot time to better clean up after node
reboots.
-- Slurmd sends node registration information repeatedly until successful
transmit.
-- Change job_state in job structure to dedicate 8-bits to state flags.
Added macros to get state information (IS_JOB_RUNNING(job_ptr), etc.)
-- Added macros to get node state information (IS_NODE_DOWN(node_ptr), etc).
-- Added support for Solaris. Patch from David Hoppner.
-- Rename "slurm-aix-federation-<version>.rpm" to just
"slurm-aix-<version>.rpm" (federation switch plugin may not be present).
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-- Eliminated the redundant squeue output format and sort options of
"%o" and "%b". Use "%D" and "%S" formats respectively. Also eliminated
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"%X" and "%Y" and "%Z" formats. Use "%z" instead.
-- Added mechanism for SPANK plugins to set environment variables for
Prolog, Epilog, PrologSLurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld programs using
the functions spank_get_job_env, spank_set_job_env, and
spank_unset_job_env. See "man spank" for more information.
-- Completed the work to begun in 2.0.0 to standardize on using '-Q' as the
--quiet flag for all the commands.
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-- BLUEGENE - sinfo and sview now display correct cpu counts for partitions
-- Cleaned up the cons_res plugin. It now uses a ptr to a part_record
instead of having to do strcmp's to find the correct one.
-- Pushed most all the plugin specific info in src/common/node_select.c
into the respected plugin.
-- BLUEGENE - closed some corner cases where a block could had been removed
while a job was waiting for it to become ready because an underlying
part of the block was put into an error state.
-- Modify sbcast logic to prevent a user from moving files to nodes they
have not been allocated (this would be possible in previous versions
only by hacking the sbcast code).
-- Add contribs/sjstat script (Perl tool to report job state information).
Put into new RPM: sjstat.
-- Add sched/wiki2 (Moab) JOBMODIFY command support for VARIABLELIST option
to set supplemental environment variables for pending batch jobs.
-- BLUEGENE - add support for scontrol show blocks.
-- Added support for job step time limits.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.10
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* Changes in SLURM 2.0.9
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-- When running the mysql plugin natively MUNGE errors are now eliminated
when sending updates to slurmctlds.
-- Check to make sure we have a default account before looking to
fill in default association.
-- Fix to make it so sched/wiki2 can modify a job's partition or hostlist of
non-pending jobs.
-- Applied slurmctld prolog bug fix from Dennis Leepow to backfill.c
-- fixed quite a few typos (needed for debian packages)
-- make it so slurmctld will core dump without --enable-debug set
-- Fix issue when doing a rollup on reservations before a cluster has been
added.
-- MySQL plugin - When doing archiving end time is now decreased by 1
which should be more correct.
-- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where --no-rotate didn't work correctly on job
submissions.
-- BLUEGENE - made the buffer longer when submitting jobs to get the entire
line. Previously the line could be shortened prematurely.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix to make sure we don't erroneously set a connection type
to SMALL.
-- Type cast a negative uint64_t to int64_t to avoid confusion when doing
arithmetic with it in accounting dealing with over commit time.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.8
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-- BLUEGENE - added dub2 of stderr to put error messages sent from underlying
libraries of the bridge api to the bridgeapi.log
-- Fixed issue with sacctmgr when modifing a user and specifying 'where'
after giving the user name also.
-- -L, --allclusters now works with sacct
-- Modified job table to use 32bit u/gids for those with ids greater
than 16 bits.
-- Made minor changes for slurm to compile cleanly under gcc 4.4.1
-- Fixed issue with task/affinity when an allocation would run multiple sruns
with the --exclusive flag in an allocation with more than 1 node.
Previously when the first node was filled up no tasks would ever run
on the other nodes.
-- Fixed sview and sacct to display correct run time and suspend time when
job has been suspended.
-- Applied patch from Mark Grondona that fixes the validation of the
PluginDir to support the colon separated list of directories as documented.
-- BLUEGENE - squeue -o %R now prints more readable info for small blocks
-- sacct - fixed garbage being printed out on uninitialized variable.
-- Fix for mysql plugin when used without slurmdbd to register the
slurmctld properly.
-- Fix for mysql plugin putting correct hostnames in for running steps.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.7
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-- Fix bug in select/cons_res when nodes are configured in more than one
partition and those partitions have different priorities and sched/gang
is not configured. CPUs were previously over-allocated.
-- Fix core of smap when specifying -i option with invalid argument.
-- Fix issue when using srun --test-only to not put an entry of test
job into accounting.
-- For OpenMPI use of SLURM reserved ports. If any of the tasks fails to
acquire a reserved port and has an exit code of 108 then srun will
kill all remaining tasks and respawn the tasks. Previous code waited
for tasks to exit.
-- MySQL plugin - When doing archiving we now get a correct end time.
Previously it would grab an extra day to archive.
-- BLUEGENE - Handle initial state correctly, previously was setting initial
state to IDLE if UNKNOWN which would make it not set a registration
message to accounting, which could lead to nodes not being listed as up
when they really were.
-- Fixed buffer size issue with scontrol show hostlist.
-- Fixed issue with copy in smap -Dc previously command wouldn't work.
-- BLUEGENE - Update documentation about small blocks in the bluegene.conf
file.
-- In sched/wiki plugin (for Maui) fix possible message truncation on very
large cluster.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix for handling undocumented Deallocating to Configuring to
Free block transition state.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix for overlap mode loading blocks when midplane is in an
error state.
-- Add range check for SuspendTime configuration parameter.
-- Moved unzipped python-hostname tarball out and the tarball in.
-- BLUEGENE - Patched memory leak when running state test.
-- BLUEGENE - fixed slow down generated by slow call rm_get_BG
and polling thread.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.6
========================
-- Fixed seg fault when "scontrol listpids" is invoked for a specific job step
on a node on which a stepd is not running.
-- Fix bug in sched/backfill which could result in invalid memory reference
when trying to schedule jobs submitted with --exclude option.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.5
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-- BLUEGENE - Added support for emulating systems with a X-dimension of 4.
-- BLUEGENE - When a nodecard goes down on a non-Dynamic system SLURM will
now only drain blocks under 1 midplane, if no such block exists then SLURM
will drain the entire midplane and not mark any block in error state.
Previously SLURM would drain every overlapping block of the nodecard
making it possible for a large block to make other blocks not work since
they overlap some other part of the block that really isn't bad.
-- BLUEGENE - Handle L3 errors on boot better.
-- Don't revoke a pending batch launch request from the slurmctld if the
job is immediately suspended (a normal event with gang scheduling).
-- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue with restart of slurmctld would allow error block
nodes to be considered for building new blocks when testing if a job would
run. This is a visual bug only, jobs would never run on new block, but
the block would appear in slurm tools.
-- Better responsiveness when starting new allocations when running with the
slurmdbd.
-- Fixed race condition when reconfiguring the slurmctld and using the
consumable resources plugin which would cause the controller to core.
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-- Fixed race condition that sometimes caused jobs to stay in completing
state longer than necessary after being terminated.
-- Fixed issue where if a parent account has a qos added and then a child
account has the qos removed the users still get the qos.
-- BLUEGENE - New blocks in dynamic mode will only be made in the system
when the block is actually needed for a job, not when testing.
-- BLUEGENE - Don't remove larger block used for small block until job starts.
-- Add new squeue output format and sort option of "%L" to print a job's time
left (time limit minus time used).
-- BLUEGENE - Fixed draining state count for sinfo/sview.
-- Fix for sview to not core when viewing nodes allocated to a partition
and the all jobs finish.
-- Fix cons_res to not core dump when finishing a job running on a
defunct partition.
-- Don't require a node to have --ntasks-per-node CPUs for use when the
--overcommit option is also used.
-- Increase the maximum number of tasks which can be launched by a job step
per node from 64 to 128.
-- sview - make right click on popup window title show sorted list.
-- scontrol now displays correct units for job min memory and min tmp disk.
-- better support for salloc/sbatch arbitrary layout for setting correct
SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE
-- Env var SLURM_CPUS_ON_NODE is now set correctly depending on the
FastSchedule configuration parameter.
-- Correction to topology/3d_torus plugin calculation when coordinate value
exceeds "9" (i.e. a hex value).
-- In sched/wiki2 - Strip single and double quotes out of a node's reason
string to avoid confusing Moab's parser.
-- Modified scancel to cancel any pending jobs before cancelling any other
-- Updated sview config info
-- Fix a couple of bugs with respect to scheduling with overlapping
reservations (one with a flag of "Maintenance").
-- Fix bug when updating a pending job's nice value after explicitly setting
it's priority.
-- We no longer add blank QOS'
-- Fix task affinity for systems running fastschedule!=0 and they have less
resources configured than in existence.
-- Slurm.pm loads without warning now on AIX systems
-- modified pmi code to do strncpy's on the correct len
-- Fix for filling in a qos structure to return SLURM_SUCCESS on success.
-- BLUEGENE - Added SLURM_BG_NUM_NODES with cnode count of allocation,
SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES represents midplane counts until 2.1.
-- BLUEGENE - Added fix for if a block is in error state and the midplane
containing the block is also set to drain/down. This previously
prevented dynamic creation of new blocks when this state was present.
-- Fixed bug where a users association limits were not enforced, only
parent limits were being enforced.
-- For OpenMPI use of SLURM reserved ports, reserve a count of ports equal to
the maximum task count on any node plus one (the plus one is a correction).
-- Do not reset SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE when srun --preserve-env option is used
(needed by OpenMPI).
-- Fix possible assert failure in task/affinity if a node is configured with
more resources than physically exist.
-- Sview can now resize columns.
-- Avoid clearing a drained node's reason field when state is changed from
down (i.e. returned to service). Note the drain state flag stays set.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.4
========================
-- Permit node suspend/resume logic to be enabled through "scontrol reconfig"
given appropriate changes to slurm configuration file.
-- Check for return codes on functions with warn_unused_result set.
-- Fix memory leak in getting step information (as used by squeue -s).
-- Better logging for when job's request bad output file locations.
-- Fix issue where if user specified non-existant file to write to slurmstepd
will regain privileges before sending batch script ended to the controller.
-- Fix bug when using the priority_multifactor plugin with no associations
yet.
-- BLUEGENE - we no longer check for the images to sync state. This was
needed long ago when rebooting blocks wasn't a possibility and should
had been removed when that functionality was available.
-- Added message about no connection with the database for sacctmgr.
-- On BlueGene, let srun or salloc exit on SIGINT if slurmctld dies while
booting its block.
-- In select/cons_res fix bug that could result in invalid memory pointer
if node configurations in slurm.conf contains 8 or more distinct
socket/core/thread counts.
-- Modify select/cons_res to recognize updated memory size upon node startup
if FastSchedule=0.
-- Fixed bug if not enforcing associations, but running with them and the
priority/multifactor, the slurmctld will not core dump on processing usage.
-- QOS will not be reset to the default when added back a previously deleted
association.
-- Do not set a job's virtual memory limit based upon the job's specified
memory limit (which should be a real memory limit, not virtual).
-- BLUEGENE - fix for sinfo/sview for displaying proper node count for nodes
in draining state.
-- Fix for sview when viewing a certain part of a group (like 1 job) so it
doesn't core when the part is gone.
-- BLUEGENE - Changed order of SYNC's to be on the front of the list to
avoid having a job terminated with a TERM before the SYNC of the
job happens.
-- Validate configured PluginDir value is a valid directory before trying to
use it.
-- Fix to resolve agent_queue_request symbol from some checkpoint plugins.
-- Fix possible execve error for sbatch script read from stdin.
-- Modify handling of user ID/name and group ID/name in the slurm.conf file
to properly handle user names that contain all digits. Return error code
from uid_from_string() and gid_from_string() functions rather than a uid of
-1, which might be a valid uid or gid on some systems.
-- Fix in re-calcuation of job priorities due to DOWN or DRAINED nodes.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.3
========================
-- Add reservation creation/update flag of Ignore_Jobs to enable the creation
of a reservation that overlaps jobs expected to still be running when
the reservation starts. This would be especially useful to reserve all
nodes for system maintenence without adjusting time limits of running
jobs before creating the reservation. Without this flag, nodes allocated
jobs expected to running when the reservation begins can not be placed
into a reservation.
-- In task/affinity plugin, add layer of abstraction to logic translating
block masks to physical machine masks. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
-- Fix for setting the node_bitmap in a job to NULL if the job does not
start correctly when expected to start.
-- Fixed bug in srun --pty logic. Output from the task was split up
arbitrarily into stdout and stderr streams, and sometimes was printed
out of order.
-- If job requests minimum and maximum node count range with select/cons_res,
try to satisfy the higher value (formerly only allocated the minimum).
-- Fix for checking for a non-existant job when querying steps.
-- For job steps with the --exclusive option, base initial wait time in
partly upon the process ID for better performance with many job steps
started at the same time. Maintain exponential back-off as needed.
-- Fix for correct step ordering in sview.
-- Support optional argument to srun and salloc --immediate option. Specify
timeout value in seconds for job or step to be allocated resources.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.2
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-- Fix, don't remove job details when a job is cancelled while pending.
-- Do correct type for mktime so garbage isn't returned on 64bit systems
for accounting archival.
-- Better checking in sacctmgr to avoid infinite loops.
-- Fix minor memory leak in fake_slurm_step_layout_create()
-- Fix node weight (scheduling priority) calculation for powered down
nodes. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
-- Fix node suspend/resume rate calculations. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
-- Change calculations using ResumeRate and SuspendRate to provide higher
resolution.
-- Log the IP address for incoming messages having an invalid protocol
version number.
-- Fix for sacct to show jobs that start the same second as the sacct
command is issued.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix for -n option to work on correct cpu counts for each
midplane instead of treating -n as a c-node count.
-- salloc now sets SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE if --ntasks-per-node option is set.
-- Fix select/linear to properly set a job's count of allocated processors
(all processors on the allocated nodes).
-- Fix select/cons_res to allocate proper CPU count when --ntasks-per-node
option is used without a task count in the job request.
-- Insure that no node is allocated to a job for which the CPU count is less
than --ntasks-per-node * --cpus-per-task.
-- Correct AllocProcs reported by "scontrol show node" when ThreadsPerCore
is greater than 1 and select/cons_res is used.
-- Fix scontrol show config for accounting information when values are
not set in the slurm.conf.
-- Added a set of SBATCH_CPU_BIND* and SBATCH_MEM_BIND* env variables to keep
jobsteps launched from within a batch script from inheriting the CPU and
memory affinity that was applied to the batch script. Patch from Matthieu
Hautreux, CEA.
-- Ignore the extra processors on a node above configured size if either
sched/gang or select/cons_res is configured.
-- Fix bug in tracking memory allocated on a node for select/cons_res plugin.
-- Fixed a race condition when writing labelled output with a file per task
or per node, which potentially closed a file before all data was written.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix, for if a job comes in spanning both less than and
over 1 midplane in size we check the connection type appropriately.
-- Make sched/backfill properly schedule jobs with constraints having node
counts. NOTE: Backfill of jobs with constraings having exclusive OR
operators are not fully supported.
-- If srun is cancelled by SIGINT, set the job state to cancelled, not
failed.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix, for if you are setting an subbp into an error mode
where the subbp stated isn't the first ionode in a nodecard.
-- Fix for backfill to not core when checking shared nodes.
-- Fix for scontrol to not core when hitting just return in interactive mode.
-- Improve sched/backfill logic with respect to shared nodes (multiple jobs
per node).
-- In sched/wiki (Maui interface) add job info fields QOS, RCLASS, DMEM and
TASKSPERNODE. Patch from Bjorn-Helge Mevik, University of Oslo.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.1
========================
-- Fix, truncate time of start and end for job steps in sacct.
-- Initialize all messages to slurmdbd. Previously uninitialized string could
cause slurmctld to fail with invalid memory reference.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix, for when trying to finish a torus on a block already
visited. Even though this may be possible electrically this isn't valid
in the under lying infrastructure.
-- Fix, in mysql plugins change mediumints to int to support full 32bit
numbers.
-- Add sinfo node state filtering support for NO_RESPOND, POWER_SAVE, FAIL,
MAINT, DRAINED and DRAINING states. The state filter of DRAIN still maps
to any node in either DRAINED or DRAINING state.
-- Fix reservation logic when job requests specific nodes that are already
in some reservation the job can not use.
-- Fix recomputation of a job's end time when allocated nodes which are
being powered up. The end time would be set in the past if the job's
time limit was INFINITE, resulting in it being prematurely terminated.
-- Permit regular user to change the time limit of his pending jobs up to
the partition's limit.
-- Fix "-Q" (quiet) option for salloc and sbatch which was previously
ignored.
-- BLUEGENE - fix for finding odd shaped blocks in dynamic mode.
-- Fix logic supporting SuspendRate and ResumeRate configuration parameters.
Previous logic was changing state of one too many nodes per minute.
-- Save new reservation state file on shutdown (even if no changes).
-- Fix, when partitions are deleted the sched and select plugins are notified.
-- Fix for slurmdbd to create wckeyid's when they don't exist
-- Fix linking problem that prevented checkpoint/aix from working.
========================
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-- Fix for bluegene systems to be able to create 32 node blocks with only
16 psets defined in dynamic layout mode.
-- Improve srun_cr handling of child srun forking. Patch from Hongjia Cao,
NUDT.
-- Configuration parameter ResumeDelay replaced by SuspendTimeout and
ResumeTimeout.
-- BLUEGENE - sview/sinfo now displays correct cnode numbers for drained nodes
or blocks in error state.
-- Fix some batch job launch bugs when powering up suspended nodes.
-- Added option '-T' for sacct to truncate time of start and end and set
default of --starttime to Midnight of current day.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.0-rc2
============================
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-- Change fanout logic to start on calling node instead of first node in
message nodelist.
-- Fix bug so that smap builds properly on Sun Constellation system.
-- Filter white-space out from node feature specification.
-- Fixed issue with duration not being honored when updating start time in
reservations.
-- Fix bug in sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 plugins for reporting job resource
allocation properly when node names are configured out of sort order
with more than one numeric suffix (e.g. "tux10-1" is configured after
"tux5-1").
-- Avoid re-use of job_id (if specified at submit time) when the existing
job is in completing state (possible race condition with Moab).
-- Added SLURM_DISTRIBUTION to env for salloc.
-- Add support for "scontrol takeover" command for backup controller to
assume control immediately. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
-- If srun is unable to communicate with the slurmd tasks are now marked as
failed with the controller.
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-- Fixed issues with requeued jobs not being accounted for correctly in
the accounting.
-- Clear node's POWER_SAVE flag if configuration changes to one lacking a
ResumeProgram.
-- Extend a job's time limit as appropriate due to delays powering up nodes.
-- If sbatch is used to launch a job step within an existing allocation (as
used by LSF) and the required node is powered down, print the message
"Job step creation temporarily disabled, retrying", sleep, and retry.
-- Configuration parameter ResumeDelay added to control how much time must
after a node has been suspended before resume it (e.g. powering it back
up).
-- Fix CPU binding for batch program. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
-- Fix for front end systems non-responding nodes now show up correctly in
sinfo.
-- Fix bug in preservation of advanced reservations when slurmctld restarts.
-- Updated perlapi to match correctly with slurm.h structures
-- Do not install the srun command on BlueGene systems (mpirun must be used to
launch tasks).
-- Corrections to scheduling logic for topology/tree in configurations where
nodes are configured in multiple leaf switches.
-- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux for backup mysql deamon support.
-- Changed DbdBackup to DbdBackupHost for slurmdbd.conf file
-- Add support for spank_strerror() function and improve error handling in
general for SPANK plugins.
-- Added configuration parameter SrunIOTimeout to optionally ping srun's tasks
for better fault tolerance (e.g. killed and restarteed SLURM daemons on
compute node).
-- Add slurmctld and slurmd binding to appropriate communications address
based upon NodeAddr, ControllerAddr and BackupAddr configuration
parameters. Based upon patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
NOTE: Fails when SlurmDBD is configured with some configurations.
NOTE: You must define BIND_SPECIFIC_ADDR to enable this option.
-- Avoid using powered down nodes when scheduling work if possible.
Fix possible invalid memory reference in power save logic.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre13
==============================
-- Added new partition option AllocNodes which controls the hosts from
which jobs can be submitted to this partition. From Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
-- Better support the --contiguous option for job allocations.
-- Add new scontrol option: show topology (reports contents of topology.conf
file via RPC if topology/tree plugin is configured).
-- Add advanced reservation display to smap command.
-- Replaced remaining references to SLURM_JOBID with SLURM_JOB_ID - except
when needed for backwards compatibility.
-- Fix logic to properly excise a DOWN node from the allocation of a job
with the --no-kill option.
-- The MySQL and PgSQL plugins for accounting storage and job completion are
now only built if the underlying database libraries exists (previously
the plugins were built to produce a fatal error when used).
-- BLUEGENE - scontrol show config will now display bluegene.conf information.
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* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre12
==============================
-- Added support for hard time limit by associations with added configuration
option PriorityUsageResetPeriod. This specifies the interval at which to
clear the record of time used. This is currently only available with the
priority/multifactor plugin.
-- Added SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR to sbatch's output environment variables.
-- Backup slurmdbd support implemented.
-- Update to checkpoint/xlch logic from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
-- Added configuration parameter AccountingStorageBackupHost.
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* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre11
==============================
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre10
==============================
-- Critical bug fix in task/affinity when the CoresPerSocket is greater
than the ThreadsPerCore (invalid memory reference).
-- Add DebugFlag parameter of "Wiki" to log sched/wiki and wiki2
communications in greater detail.
-- Add "-d <slurmstepd_path>" as an option to the slurmd daemon to
specifying a non-stardard slurmstepd file, used for testing purposes.
-- Minor cleanup to crypto/munge plugin.
- Restrict uid allowed to decode job credentials in crypto/munge
- Get slurm user id early in crypto/munge
- Remove buggy error code handling in crypto/munge
-- Added sprio command - works only with the priority/multifactor plugin
-- Add real topology plugin infrastructure (it was initially added
directly into slurmctld code). To specify topology information,
set TopologyType=topology/tree and add configuration information
to a new file called topology.conf. See "man topology.conf" or
topology.html web page for details.
-- Set "/proc/self/oom_adj" for slurmd and slurmstepd daemons based upon
the values of SLURMD_OOM_ADJ and SLURMSTEPD_OOM_ADJ environment
variables. This can be used to prevent daemons being killed when
a node's memory is exhausted. Based upon patch by Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
-- Fix several bugs in task/affinity: cpuset logic was broken and
--cpus-per-task option not properly handled.
-- Ensure slurmctld adopts SlurmUser GID as well as UID on startup.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre9
=============================
-- OpenMPI users only: Add srun logic to automatically recreate and
re-launch a job step if the step fails with a reserved port conflict.
-- Added TopologyPlugin configuration parameter.
-- Added switch topology data structure to slurmctld (for use by select
plugin) add load it based upon new slurm.conf parameters: SwitchName,
Nodes, Switches and LinkSpeed.
-- Modify select/linear and select/cons_res plugins to optimize resource
allocation with respect to network topology.
-- Added support for new configuration parameter EpilogSlurmctld (executed
by slurmctld daemon).
-- Added checkpoint/blcr plugin, SLURM now support job checkpoint/restart
using BLCR. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT, China.
-- Made a variety of new environment variables available to PrologSlurmctld
and EpilogSlurmctld. See the "Prolog and Epilog Scripts" section of the
slurm.conf man page for details.
-- NOTE: Cold-start (without preserving state) required for upgrade from
version 1.4.0-pre8.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre8
=============================
-- In order to create a new partition using the scontrol command, use
the "create" option rather than "update" (which will only operate
upon partitions that already exist).
-- Added environment variable SLURM_RESTART_COUNT to batch jobs to
indicated the count of job restarts made.
-- Added sacctmgr command "show config".
-- Added the scancel option --nodelist to cancel any jobs running on a
given list of nodes.
-- Add partition-specific DefaultTime (default time limit for jobs,
if not specified use MaxTime for the partition. Patch from Par
Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.
-- Add support for the scontrol command to be able change the Weight
associated with nodes. Patch from Krishnakumar Ravi[KK] (HP).
-- Add DebugFlag configuration option of "CPU_Bind" for detailed CPU
binding information to be logged.
-- Fix some significant bugs in task binding logic (possible infinite loops
and memory corruption).
-- Add new node state flag of NODE_STATE_MAINT indicating the node is in
a reservation of type MAINT.
-- Modified task/affinity plugin to automatically bind tasks to sockets,
cores, or threads as appropriated based upon resource allocation and
task count. User can override with srun's --cpu_bind option.
-- Fix bug in backfill logic for select/cons_res plugin, resulted in
error "cons_res:_rm_job_from_res: node_state mis-count".
-- Add logic go bind a batch job to the resources allocated to that job.
-- Add configuration parameter MpiParams for (future) OpenMPI port
management. Add resv_port_cnt and resv_ports fields to the job step
data structures. Add environment variable SLURM_STEP_RESV_PORTS to
show what ports are reserved for a job step.
-- Add support for SchedulerParameters=interval=<sec> to control the time
interval between executions of the backfill scheduler logic.
-- Preserve record of last job ID in use even when doing a cold-start unless
there is no job state file or there is a change in its format (which only
happens when there is a change in SLURM's major or minor version number:
v1.3 -> v1.4).
-- Added new configuration parameter KillOnBadExit to kill a job step as soon
as any task of a job step exits with a non-zero exit code. Patch based
on work from Eric Lin, Bull.
-- Add spank plugin calls for use by salloc and sbatch command, see
"man spank" for details.
-- NOTE: Cold-start (without preserving state) required for upgrade from
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre7
=============================
-- Bug fix for preemption with select/cons_res when there are no idle nodes.
-- Bug fix for use of srun options --exclusive and --cpus-per-task together
for job step resource allocation (tracking of cpus in use was bad).
-- Added the srun option --preserve-env to pass the current values of
environment variables SLURM_NNODES and SLURM_NPROCS through to the
executable, rather than computing them from commandline parameters.
-- For select/cons_res or sched/gang only: Validate a job's resource
allocation socket and core count on each allocated node. If the node's
configuration has been changed, then abort the job.
-- For select/cons_res or sched/gang only: Disable updating a node's
processor count if FastSchedule=0. Administrators must set a valid
processor count although the memory and disk space configuration can
be loaded from the compute node when it starts.
-- Add configure option "--disable-iso8601" to disable SLURM use of ISO 8601
time format at the time of SLURM build. Default output for all commands
is now ISO 8601 (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss).
-- Add support for scontrol to explicity power a node up or down using the
configured SuspendProg and ResumeProg programs.
-- Fix book select/cons_res logic for tracking the number of allocated
CPUs on a node when a partition's Shared value is YES or FORCE.
-- Added configure options "--enable-cray-xt" and "--with-apbasil=PATH" for
eventual support of Cray-XT systems.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre6
=============================
-- Fix job preemption when sched/gang and select/linear are configured with
non-sharing partitions.
-- In select/cons_res insure that required nodes have available resources.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre5
=============================
-- Correction in setting of SLURM_CPU_BIND environment variable.
-- Rebuild slurmctld's job select_jobinfo->node_bitmap on restart/reconfigure
of the daemon rather than restoring the bitmap since the nodes in a system
can change (be added or removed).
-- Add configuration option "--with-cpusetdir=PATH" for non-standard
locations.
-- Get new multi-core data structures working on BlueGene systems.
-- Modify PMI_Get_clique_ranks() to return an array of integers rather
than a char * to satisfy PMI standard. Correct logic in
PMI_Get_clique_size() for when srun --overcommit option is used.
-- Fix bug in select/cons_res, allocated a job all of the processors on a
node when the --exclusive option is specified as a job submit option.
-- Add NUMA cpu_bind support to the task affinity plugin. Binds tasks to
a set of CPUs that belong NUMA locality domain with the appropriate
--cpu-bind option (ldoms, rank_ldom, map_ldom, and mask_ldom), see
"man srun" for more information.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre4
=============================
-- For task/affinity, force jobs to use a particular task binding by setting
the TaskPluginParam configuration parameter rather than slurmd's
SLURM_ENFORCED_CPU_BIND environment variable.
-- Enable full preemption of jobs by partition with select/cons_res
(cons_res_preempt.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
-- Add configuration parameter DebugFlags to provide detailed logging for
specific subsystems (steps and triggers so far).
-- srun's --no-kill option is passed to slurmctld so that a job step is
killed even if the node where srun executes goes down (unless the
--no-kill option is used, previous termination logic would fail if
srun was not responding).
-- Transfer a job step's core bitmap from the slurmctld to the slurmd
within the job step credential.
-- Add cpu_bind, cpu_bind_type, mem_bind and mem_bind_type to job allocation
request and job_details structure in slurmctld. Add support to --cpu_bind
and --mem_bind options from salloc and sbatch commands.
Moe Jette
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* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre3
=============================
-- Internal changes: CPUs per node changed from 32-bit to 16-bit size.
Node count fields changed from 16-bit to 32-bit size in some structures.
-- Remove select plugin functions select_p_get_extra_jobinfo(),
select_p_step_begin() and select_p_step_fini().
-- Remove the following slurmctld job structure fields: num_cpu_groups,
cpus_per_node, cpu_count_reps, alloc_lps_cnt, alloc_lps, and used_lps.
Use equivalent fields in new "select_job" structure, which is filled
in by the select plugins.
-- Modify mem_per_task in job step request from 16-bit to 32-bit size.
Use new "select_job" structure for the job step's memory management.
-- Add core_bitmap_job to slurmctld's job step structure to identify
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-- Add new configuration option OverTimeLimit to permit jobs to exceed
their (soft) time limit by a configurable amount. Backfill scheduling
will be based upon the soft time limit.
Moe Jette
committed
-- Remove select_g_get_job_cores(). That data is now within the slurmctld's
job structure.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre2
=============================
-- Remove srun's --ctrl-comm-ifhn-addr option (for PMI/MPICH2). It is no
longer needed.
-- Modify power save mode so that nodes can be powered off when idle. See
https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/power_save.html or
"man slurm.conf" (SuspendProgram and related parameters) for more
information.
-- Added configuration parameter PrologSlurmctld, which can be used to boot
nodes into a particular state for each job. See "man slurm.conf" for
details.
-- Add configuration parameter CompleteTime to control how long to wait for
a job's completion before allocating already released resources to pending
jobs. This can be used to reduce fragmentation of resources. See
"man slurm.conf" for details.
-- Make default CryptoType=crypto/munge. OpenSSL is now completely optional.
-- Make default AuthType=auth/munge rather than auth/none.
-- Change output format of "sinfo -R" from "%35R %N" to "%50R %N".
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre1
=============================
-- Save/restore a job's task_distribution option on slurmctld retart.
NOTE: SLURM must be cold-started on converstion from version 1.3.x.
-- Remove task_mem from job step credential (only job_mem is used now).
-- Remove --task-mem and --job-mem options from salloc, sbatch and srun
(use --mem-per-cpu or --mem instead).
-- Remove DefMemPerTask from slurm.conf (use DefMemPerCPU or DefMemPerNode
instead).
-- Modify slurm_step_launch API call. Move launch host from function argument
to element in the data structure slurm_step_launch_params_t, which is
used as a function argument.
-- Add state_reason_string to job state with optional details about why
a job is pending.
-- Make "scontrol show node" output match scontrol input for some fields
("Cores" changed to "CoresPerSocket", etc.).
-- Add support for a new node state "FUTURE" in slurm.conf. These node records
are created in SLURM tables for future use without a reboot of the SLURM
daemons, but are not reported by any SLURM commands or APIs.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.17
=========================
-- Fix bug in configure script that can clear user specified LIBS.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.16
=========================
-- Fix memory leak in forward logic of tree message passing.
-- Fix job exit code recorded for srun job allocation.
-- Bluegene - Bug fix for too many parameters being passed to a debug statement
-- Bluegene - Bug fix for systems running more than 8 in the X dim running
Dynamic mode.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.15
=========================
-- Fix bug in squeue command with sort on job name ("-S j" option) for jobs
that lack a name. Previously generated an invalid memory reference.
-- Permit the TaskProlog to write to the job's standard output by writing
a line containing the prefix "print " to it's standard output.
-- Fix for making the slurmdbd agent thread start up correctly when
stopped and then started again.
-- Add squeue option to report jobs by account (-U or --account). Patch from
Par Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.
-- Add -DNUMA_VERSION1_COMPATIBILITY to Makefile CFLAGS for proper behavior
when building with NUMA version 2 APIs.
-- BLUEGENE - slurm works on a BGP system.
-- BLUEGENE - slurm handles HTC blocks
-- BLUEGENE - Added option DenyPassthrough in the bluegene.conf. Can be set
to any combination of X,Y,Z to not allow passthroughs when running in
dynamic layout mode.
-- Fix bug in logic to remove a job's dependency, could result in abort.
-- Add new error message to sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui and Moab) for
STARTJOB request: "TASKLIST includes non-responsive nodes".
-- Fix bug in select/linear when used with sched/gang that can result in a
job's required or excluded node specification being ignored.
-- Add logic to handle message connect timeouts (timed-out.patch from
Chuck Clouston, Bull).
-- BLUEGENE - CFLAGS=-m64 is no longer required in configure
-- Update python-hostlist code from Kent Engström (NSC) to v1.5
- Add hostgrep utility to search for lines matching a hostlist.
- Make each "-" on the command line count as one hostlist argument.
If multiple hostslists are given on stdin they are combined to a
union hostlist before being used in the way requested by the
options.
-- When using -j option in sacct no user restriction will applied unless
specified with the -u option.
-- For sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, change logging of wiki message traffic
from debug() to debug2(). Only seen if SlurmctldDebug is configured to
6 or higher.
-- Significant speed up for association based reports in sreport
-- BLUEGENE - fix for checking if job can run with downed nodes. Previously
sbatch etc would tell you node configuration not available now jobs are
accepted but held until nodes are back up.
-- Fix in accounting so if any nodes are removed from the system when they
were previously down will be recorded correctly.
-- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), add flag to note if job is restartable and
prevent deadlock of job requeue fails.
-- Modify squeue to return non-zero exit code on failure. Patch from
Par Andersson (NSC).
-- Correct logic in select/cons_res to allocate a job the maximum node
count from a range rather than minimum (e.g. "sbatch -N1-4 my.sh").
-- In accounting_storage/filetxt and accounting_storage/pgsql fix
possible invalid memory reference when a job lacks a name.
-- Give srun command an exit code of 1 if the prolog fails.
-- BLUEGENE - allows for checking nodecard states in the system instead
of midplane state so as to not down an entire midplane if you don't
have to.
-- BLUEGENE - fix creation of MESH blocks
-- BLUEGENE - on job cancellation we call jm_cancel_job and then wait until
the system cleans up the job. Before we would send a SIGKILL right
at the beginning.
-- BLUEGENE - if a user specifies a node count that can not be met the job
will be refused instead of before the plugin would search for the next
larger size that could be created. This prevents users asking for
things that can't be created, and then getting something back they might
not be expecting.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.14
=========================
-- SECURITY BUG: Fix in sbcast logic that permits users to write files based
upon supplimental groups of the slurmd daemon. Similar logic for event
triggers if slurmctld is run as user root (not typical).
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.13
=========================
-- Added ability for slurmdbd to archive and purge step and/or job records.
-- Added DefaultQOS as an option to slurmdbd.conf for when clusters are
added the default will be set to this if none is given in the sacctmgr line.
-- Added configure option --enable-sun-const for Sun Constellation system with
3D torus interconnect. Supports proper smap and sview displays for 3-D
topology. Node names are automatically put into Hilbert curve order given
a one-line nodelist definition in slurm.conf (e.g. NodeNames=sun[000x533]).
-- Fixed bug in parsing time for sacct and sreport to pick the correct year if
none is specified.
-- Provide better scheduling with overlapping partitions (when a job can not
be scheduled due to insufficient resources, reserve specific the nodes
associated with that partition rather than blocking all partitions with
any overlapping nodes).
-- Correct logic to log in a job's stderr that it was "CANCELLED DUE TO
NODE FAILURE" rather than just "CANCELLED".
-- Fix to crypto/openssl plugin that could result in job launch requests
being spoofed through the use of an improperly formed credential. This bug
could permit a user to launch tasks on compute nodes not allocated for
their use, but will NOT permit them to run tasks as another user. For more
information see http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.12
=========================
-- Added support for Workload Characteristic Key (WCKey) in accounting. The
WCkey is something that can be used in accounting to group associations
together across clusters or within clusters that are not related. Use
the --wckey option in srun, sbatch or salloc or set the SLURM_WCKEY env
var to have this set. Use sreport with the wckey option to view reports.
THIS CHANGES THE RPC LEVEL IN THE SLURMDBD. YOU MUST UPGRADE YOUR SLURMDBD
BEFORE YOU UPGRADE THE REST OF YOUR CLUSTERS. THE NEW SLURMDBD WILL TALK
TO OLDER VERSIONS OF SLURM FINE.
-- Added configuration parameter BatchStartTimeout to control how long to
allow for a batch job prolog and environment loading (for Moab) to run.
Previously if job startup took too long, a batch job could be cancelled
before fully starting with a SlurmctldLog message of "Master node lost
JobId=#, killing it". See "man slurm.conf" for details.
-- For a job step, add support for srun's --nodelist and --exclusive options
to be used together.
-- On slurmstepd failure, set node state to DRAIN rather than DOWN.
-- Fix bug in select/cons_res that would incorrectly satify a tasks's
--cpus-per-task specification by allocating the task CPUs on more than
one node.
-- Add support for hostlist expressions containing up to two numeric
expressions (e.g. "rack[0-15]_blade[0-41]").
-- Fix bug in slurmd message forwarding which left file open in the case of
some communication failures.
-- Correction to sinfo node state information on BlueGene systems. DRAIN
state was replaced with ALLOC or IDLE under some situations.
-- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), strip quotes embedded within job names from the
name reported.
-- Fix bug in jobcomp/script that could cause the slurmctld daemon to exit
upon reconfiguration ("scontrol reconfig" or SIGHUP).
-- Fix to sinfo, don't print a node's memory size or tmp_disk space with
suffix of "K" or "M" (thousands or millions of megabytes).
-- Improve efficiency of scheduling jobs into partitions which do not overlap.
-- Fixed sreport user top report to only display the limit specified
instead of all users.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.11
=========================
-- Bluegene/P support added (minimally tested, but builds correctly).
-- Fix infinite loop when using accounting_storage/mysql plugin either from
the slurmctld or slurmdbd daemon.
-- Added more thread safety for assoc_mgr in the controller.
-- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), permit clearing of a job's dependencies with the
JOB_MODIFY option "DEPEND=0".
-- Do not set a running or pending job's EndTime when changing it's time
limit.
-- Fix bug in use of "include" parameter within the plugstack.conf file.
-- Fix bug in the parsing of negative numeric values in configuration files.
-- Propagate --cpus-per-task parameter from salloc or sbatch input line to
the SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK environment variable in the spawned shell for
srun to use.
-- Add support for srun --cpus-per-task=0. This can be used to spawn tasks
without allocating resouces for the job step from the job's allocation
when running multiple job steps with the --exclusive option.
-- Remove registration messages from saved messages when bringing down cluster.
Without causes deadlock if wrong cluster name is given.
-- Correction to build for srun debugger (export symbols).
-- sacct will now display more properly allocations made with salloc with only
one step.
-- Altered sacctmgr, sreport to look at complete option before applying.
Before we would only look at the first determined significant characters.
-- BLUGENE - in overlap mode marking a block to error state will now end
jobs on overlapping blocks and free them.
-- Give a batch job 20 minutes to start before considering it missing and
killing it (long delay could result from slurmd being paged out). Changed
the log message from "Master node lost JobId=%u, killing it" to "Batch
JobId=%u missing from master node, killing it".
-- Avoid "Invalid node id" error when a job step within an existing job
allocation specifies a node count which is less than the node count
allocated in order to satisfy the task count specification (e.g.
"srun -n16 -N1 hostname" on allocation of 16 one-CPU nodes).
-- For sched/wiki2 (Moab) disable changing a job's name after it has begun
execution.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.10
=========================
-- Fix several bugs in the hostlist functions:
- Fix hostset_insert_range() to do proper accounting of hl->nhosts (count).
- Avoid assertion failure when callinsg hostset_create(NULL).
- Fix return type of hostlist and hostset string functions from size_t to
ssize_t.
- Add check for NULL return from hostlist_create().
- Rewrite of hostrange_hn_within(), avoids reporting "tst0" in the hostlist
"tst".
-- Modify squeue to accept "--nodes=<hostlist>" rather than
"--node=<node_name>" and report all jobs with any allocated nodes from set
of nodes specified. From Par Anderson, National Supercomputer Centre,
Sweden.
-- Fix bug preventing use of TotalView debugger with TaskProlog configured or
or srun's --task-prolog option.
-- Improve reliability of batch job requeue logic in the event that the slurmd
daemon is temporarily non-responsive (for longer than the configured
MessageTimeout value but less than the SlurmdTimeout value).
-- In sched/wiki2 (Moab) report a job's MAXNODES (maximum number of permitted
nodes).
-- Fixed SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE to live up more to it's name on an allocation.
Will now contain the number of tasks per node instead of the number of CPUs
per node. This is only for a resource allocation. Job steps already have
the environment variable set correctly.
-- Configuration parameter PropagateResourceLimits has new option of "NONE".
-- User's --propagate options take precidence over PropagateResourceLimits
configuration parameter in both srun and sbatch commands.
-- When Moab is in use (salloc or sbatch is executed with the --get-user-env
option to be more specific), load the user's default resource limits rather
than propagating the Moab daemon's limits.
-- Fix bug in slurmctld restart logic for recovery of batch jobs that are
initiated as a job step rather than an independent job (used for LSF).
-- Fix bug that can cause slurmctld restart to fail, bug introduced in SLURM
version 1.3.9. From Eygene Ryabinkin, Kurchatov Institute, Russia.
-- Permit slurmd configuration parameters to be set to new values from
previously unset values.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.9
========================
-- Fix jobs being cancelled by ctrl-C to have correct cancelled state in
accounting.
-- Slurmdbd will only cache user data, made for faster start up
-- Improved support for job steps in FRONT_END systems
-- Added support to dump and load association information in the controller
on start up if slurmdbd is unresponsive
-- BLUEGENE - Added support for sched/backfill plugin
-- sched/backfill modified to initiate multiple jobs per cycle.
-- Increase buffer size in srun to hold task list expressions. Critical
for jobs with 16k tasks or more.
-- Added support for eligible jobs and downed nodes to be sent to accounting
from the controller the first time accounting is turned on.
-- Correct srun logic to support --tasks-per-node option without task count.
-- Logic in place to handle multiple versions of RPCs within the slurmdbd.
THE SLURMDBD MUST BE UPGRADED TO THIS VERSION BEFORE UPGRADING THE
SLURMCTLD OR THEY WILL NOT TALK.
Older versions of the slurmctld will continue to talk to the new slurmdbd.
-- Add support for new job dependency type: singleton. Only one job from a
given user with a given name will execute with this dependency type.
From Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
-- Updated contribs/python/hostlist to version 1.3: See "CHANGES" file in
that directory for details. From Kent Engström, NSC.
-- Add SLURM_JOB_NAME environment variable for jobs submitted using sbatch.
In order to prevent the job steps from all having the same name as the
batch job that spawned them, the SLURM_JOB_NAME environment variable is
ignored when setting the name of a job step from within an existing
resource allocation.
-- For use with sched/wiki2 (Moab only), set salloc's default shell based
upon the user who the job runs as rather than the user submitting the job
(user root).
-- Fix to sched/backfill when job specifies no time limit and the partition
time limit is INFINITE.
-- Validate a job's constraints (node features) at job submit or modification
time. Major re-write of resource allocation logic to support more complex
job feature requests.
-- For sched/backfill, correct logic to support job constraint specification
(e.g. node features).
-- Correct power save logic to avoid trying to wake DOWN node. From Matthieu
Hautreux, CEA.
-- Cancel a job step when one of it's nodes goes DOWN based upon the job
step's --no-kill option, by default the step is killed (previously the
job step remained running even without the --no-kill option).
-- Fix bug in logic to remove whitespace from plugstack.conf.
-- Add new configuration parameter SallocDefaultCommand to control what
shell that salloc launches by default.
-- When enforcing PrivateData configuration parameter, failures return
"Access/permission denied" rather than "Invalid user id".
-- From sbatch and srun, if the --dependency option is specified then set
the environment variable SLURM_JOB_DEPENDENCY to the same value.
-- In plugin jobcomp/filetxt, use ISO8601 formats for time by default (e.g.
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS rather than MM/DD-HH:MM:SS). This restores the default
behavior from Slurm version 1.2. Change the value of USE_ISO8601 in
src/plusings/jobcomp/filetxt/jobcomp_filetxt.c to revert the behavior.
-- Add support for configuration option of ReturnToService=2, which will
return a DOWN to use if the node was previous set DOWN for any reason.
-- Removed Gold accounting plugin. This plugin was to be used for accounting
but has seen not been maintained and is no longer needed. If using this
please contact slurm-dev@llnl.gov.
-- When not enforcing associations and running accounting if a user
submits a job to an account that does not have an association on the
cluster the account will be changed to the default account to help
avoid trash in the accounting system. If the users default account
does not have an association on the cluster the requested account
will be used.
-- Add configuration parameter "--have-front-end" to define HAVE_FRONT_END
in config.h and run slurmd only on a front end (suitable only for SLURM
development and testing).
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.8
========================
-- Added PrivateData flags for Users, Usage, and Accounts to Accounting.
If using slurmdbd, set in the slurmdbd.conf file. Otherwise set in the
slurm.conf file. See "man slurm.conf" or "man slurmdbd.conf" for details.
-- Reduce frequency of resending job kill RPCs. Helpful in the event of
network problems or down nodes.
-- Fix memory leak caused under heavy load when running with select/cons_res
plus sched/backfill.
-- For salloc, if no local command is specified, execute the user's default
shell.
-- BLUEGENE - patch to make sure when starting a job blocks required to be
freed are checked to make sure no job is running on them. If one is found
we will requeue the new job. No job will be lost.
-- BLUEGENE - Set MPI environment variables from salloc.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix threading issue for overlap mode
-- Reject batch scripts containing DOS linebreaks.
-- BLUEGENE - Added wait for block boot to salloc
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.7
========================
-- Add jobid/stepid to MESSAGE_TASK_EXIT to address race condition when
a job step is cancelled, another is started immediately (before the
first one completely terminates) and ports are reused.
NOTE: This change requires that SLURM be updated on all nodes of the
cluster at the same time. There will be no impact upon currently running
jobs (they will ignore the jobid/stepid at the end of the message).
-- Added Python module to process hostslists as used by SLURM. See
contribs/python/hostlist. Supplied by Kent Engstrom, National
Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.
-- Report task termination due to signal (restored functionality present
in slurm v1.2).
-- Remove sbatch test for script size being no larger than 64k bytes.
The current limit is 4GB.
-- Disable FastSchedule=0 use with SchedulerType=sched/gang. Node
configuration must be specified in slurm.conf for gang scheduling now.
-- For sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui or Moab scheduler) disable the ability
of a non-root user to change a job's comment field (used by Maui/Moab for
storing scheduler state information).
-- For sched/wiki (Maui) add pending job's future start time to the state
info reported to Maui.
-- Improve reliability of job requeue logic on node failure.
-- Add logic to ping non-responsive nodes even if SlurmdTimeout=0. This permits
the node to be returned to use when it starts responding rather than
remaining in a non-usable state.
-- Honor HealthCheckInterval values that are smaller than SlurmdTimeout.
-- For non-responding nodes, log them all on a single line with a hostlist
expression rather than one line per node. Frequency of log messages is
dependent upon SlurmctldDebug value from 300 seconds at SlurmctldDebug<=3
to 1 second at SlurmctldDebug>=5.
-- If a DOWN node is resumed, set its state to IDLE & NOT_RESPONDING and
ping the node immediately to clear the NOT_RESPONDING flag.
-- Log that a job's time limit is reached, but don't sent SIGXCPU.
-- Fixed gid to be set in slurmstepd when run by root
-- Changed getpwent to getpwent_r in the slurmctld and slurmd
-- Increase timeout on most slurmdbd communications to 60 secs (time for
substantial database updates).
-- Treat srun option of --begin= with a value of now without a numeric
component as a failure (e.g. "--begin=now+hours").
-- Eliminate a memory leak associated with notifying srun of allocated
nodes having failed.
-- Add scontrol shutdown option of "slurmctld" to just shutdown the
slurmctld daemon and leave the slurmd daemons running.
-- Do not require JobCredentialPrivateKey or JobCredentialPublicCertificate
in slurm.conf if using CryptoType=crypto/munge.
-- Remove SPANK support from sbatch.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.6
========================
-- Add new function to get information for a single job rather than always
getting information for all jobs. Improved performance of some commands.
NOTE: This new RPC means that the slurmctld daemons should be updated
before or at the same time as the compute nodes in order to process it.
-- In salloc, sbatch, and srun replace --task-mem options with --mem-per-cpu
(--task-mem will continue to be accepted for now, but is not documented).
Replace DefMemPerTask and MaxMemPerTask with DefMemPerCPU, DefMemPerNode,
MaxMemPerCPU and MaxMemPerNode in slurm.conf (old options still accepted
for now, but mapped to "PerCPU" parameters and not documented). Allocate
a job's memory memory at the same time that processors are allocated based
upon the --mem or --mem-per-cpu option rather than when job steps are
initiated.
-- Altered QOS in accounting to be a list of admin defined states, an
account or user can have multiple QOS's now. They need to be defined using
'sacctmgr add qos'. They are no longer an enum. If none are defined
Normal will be the QOS for everything. Right now this is only for use
with MOAB. Does nothing outside of that.
-- Added spank_get_item support for field S_STEP_CPUS_PER_TASK.
-- Make corrections in spank_get_item for field S_JOB_NCPUS, previously
reported task count rather than CPU count.
-- Convert configuration parameter PrivateData from on/off flag to have
separate flags for job, partition, and node data. See "man slurm.conf"
for details.
-- Fix bug, failed to load DisableRootJobs configuration parameter.
-- Altered sacctmgr to always return a non-zero exit code on error and send
error messages to stderr.
-- Fix processing of auth/munge authtentication key for messages originating
in slurmdbd and sent to slurmctld.
-- If srun is allocating resources (not within sbatch or salloc) and MaxWait
is configured to a non-zero value then wait indefinitely for the resource
allocation rather than aborting the request after MaxWait time.
-- For Moab only: add logic to reap defunct "su" processes that are spawned by
slurmd to load user's environment variables.
-- Added more support for "dumping" account information to a flat file and
read in again to protect data incase something bad happens to the database.
-- Sacct will now report account names for job steps.
-- For AIX: Remove MP_POERESTART_ENV environment variable, disabling
poerestart command. User must explicitly set MP_POERESTART_ENV before
executing poerestart.
-- Put back notification that a job has been allocated resources when it was
pending.
-- Some updates to man page formatting from Gennaro Oliva, ICAR.
-- Smarter loading of plugins (doesn't stat every file in the plugin dir)
-- In sched/backfill avoid trying to schedule jobs on DOWN or DRAINED nodes.
-- forward exit_code from step completion to slurmdbd
-- Add retry logic to socket connect() call from client which can fail
when the slurmctld is under heavy load.
-- Fixed bug when adding associations to add correctly.
-- Added support for associations for user root.
-- For Moab, sbatch --get-user-env option processed by slurmd daemon
rather than the sbatch command itself to permit faster response
for Moab.
-- IMPORTANT FIX: This only effects use of select/cons_res when allocating
resources by core or socket, not by CPU (default for SelectTypeParameter).
We are not saving a pending job's task distribution, so after restarting
slurmctld, select/cons_res was over-allocating resources based upon an
invalid task distribution value. Since we can't save the value without
changing the state save file format, we'll just set it to the default
value for now and save it in Slurm v1.4. This may result in a slight
variation on how sockets and cores are allocated to jobs, but at least
resources will not be over-allocated.
-- Correct logic in accumulating resources by node weight when more than
one job can run per node (select/cons_res or partition shared=yes|force).
-- slurm.spec file updated to avoid creating empty RPMs. RPM now *must* be
built with correct specification of which packages to build or not build.
See the top of the slurm.spec file for information about how to control
package building specification.
-- Set SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE for jobs allocated using the srun command.
It was already set for salloc and sbatch commands.
-- Fix to handle suspended jobs that were cancelled in accounting
-- BLUEGENE - fix to only include bps given in a name from the bluegene.conf
file.
-- For select/cons_res: Fix record-keeping for core allocations when more
than one partition uses a node or there is more than one socket per node.
-- In output for "scontrol show job" change "StartTime" header to "EligibleTime"
for pending jobs to accurately describe what is reported.
-- Add more slurmdbd.conf paramters: ArchiveScript, ArchiveAge, JobPurge, and
StepPurge (not fully implemented yet).
-- Add slurm.conf parameter EnforcePartLimits to reject jobs which exceed a
partition's size and/or time limits rather than leaving them queued for a
later change in the partition's limits. NOTE: Not reported by
"scontrol show config" to avoid changing RPCs. It will be reported in
SLURM version 1.4.
-- Added idea of coordinator to accounting. A coordinator can add associations
between exsisting users to the account or any sub-account they are
coordinator to. They can also add/remove other coordinators to those
accounts.
-- Add support for Hostname and NodeHostname in slurm.conf being fully
qualified domain names (by Vijay Ramasubramanian, University of Maryland).
For more information see "man slurm.conf".
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.3
========================
-- Add mpi_openmpi plugin to the main SLURM RPM.
-- Prevent invalid memory reference when using srun's --cpu_bind=cores option
(slurm-1.3.2-1.cea1.patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA).
-- Task affinity plugin modified to support a particular cpu bind type: cores,
sockets, threads, or none. Accomplished by setting an environment variable
SLURM_ENFORCE_CPU_TYPE (slurm-1.3.2-1.cea2.patch from Matthieu Hautreux,
CEA).
-- For BlueGene only, log "Prolog failure" once per job not once per node.
-- Reopen slurmctld log file after reconfigure or SIGHUP is received.
-- In TaskPlugin=task/affinity, fix possible infinite loop for slurmd.
-- Accounting rollup works for mysql plugin. Automatic rollup when using
slurmdbd.
-- Copied job stat logic out of sacct into sstat in the future sacct -stat
will be deprecated.
-- Correct sbatch processing of --nice option with negative values.
-- Add squeue formatted print option %Q to print a job's integer priority.
-- In sched/backfill, fix bug that was changing a pending job's shared value
to zero (possibly changing a pending job's resource requirements from a
processor on some node to the full node).
-- Get --ntasks-per-node option working for sbatch command.
Danny Auble
committed
-- BLUEGENE: Added logic to give back a best block on overlapped mode
in test_only mode
-- BLUEGENE: Updated debug info and man pages for better help with the
numpsets option and to fail correctly with bad image request for building
blocks.
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 properly support Slurm license consumption
(job state reported as "Hold" when required licenses are not available).
-- In sched/wiki2 JobWillRun command, don't return an error code if the job(s)
can not be started at that time. Just return an error message (from
Doug Wightman, CRI).
-- Fix bug if sched/wiki or sched/wiki2 are configured and no job comment is
set.
-- scontrol modified to report partition partition's "DisableRootJobs" value.
-- Fix bug in setting host address for PMI communications (mpich2 only).
-- Fix for memory size accounting on some architectures.
-- In sbatch and salloc, change --dependency's one letter option from "-d"
to "-P" (continue to accept "-d", but change the documentation).
-- Only check that task_epilog and task_prolog are runable by the job's
user, not as root.
-- In sbatch, if specifying an alternate directory (--workdir/-D), then
input, output and error files are in that directory rather than the
directory from which the command is executed
-- NOTE: Fully operational with Moab version 5.2.3+. Change SUBMITCMD in
moab.cfg to be the location of sbatch rather than srun. Also set
HostFormat=2 in SLURM's wiki.conf for improved performance.
-- NOTE: We needed to change an RPC from version 1.3.1. You must upgrade
all nodes in a cluster from v1.3.1 to v1.3.2 at the same time.
-- Postgres plugin will work from job accounting, not for association
management yet.
-- For srun/sbatch --get-user-env option (Moab use only) look for "env"
command in both /bin and /usr/sbin (for Suse Linux).
-- Fix bug in processing job feature requests with node counts (could fail
to schedule job if some nodes have not associated features).
-- Added nodecnt and gid to jobcomp/script
-- Insure that nodes select in "srun --will-run" command or the equivalent in
sched/wiki2 are in the job's partition.
-- BLUGENE - changed partition Min|MaxNodes to represent c-node counts
instead of base partitions
-- In sched/gang only, prevent possible invalid memory reference when
slurmctld is reconfigured, e.g. "scontrol reconfig".
-- In select/linear only, prevent invalid memory reference in log message when
nodes are added to slurm.conf and then "scontrol reconfig" is executed.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.1
========================
-- Correct logic for processing batch job's memory limit enforcement.
-- Fix bug that was setting a job's requeue value on any update of the
job using the "scontrol update" command. The invalid value of an
updated job prevents it's recovery when slurmctld restarts.
-- Add support for cluster-wide consumable resources. See "Licenses"
parameter in slurm.conf man page and "--licenses" option in salloc,
sbatch and srun man pages.
-- Major changes in select/cons_res to support FastSchedule=2 with more
resources configured than actually exist (useful for testing purposes).
-- Modify srun --test-only response to include expected initiation time
for a job as well as the nodes to be allocated and processor count
(for use by Moab).
-- Correct sched/backfill to properly honor job dependencies.
-- Correct select/cons_res logic to allocate CPUs properly if there is
more than one thread per core (previously failed to allocate all cores).
-- Correct select/linear logic in shared job count (was off by 1).
-- Add support for job preeption based upon partition priority (in sched/gang,
preempt.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
Danny Auble
committed
-- Added much better logic for mysql accounting.
-- Finished all basic functionality for sacctmgr.
-- Added load file logic to sacctmgr for setting up a cluster in one step.
-- NOTE: We needed to change an RPC from version 1.3.0. You must upgrade
all nodes in a cluster from v1.3.0 to v1.3.1 at the same time.
-- NOTE: Work is currently underway to improve placement of jobs for gang
scheduling and preemption.
-- NOTE: Work is underway to provide additional tools for reporting
accounting information.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0
========================
-- In sched/wiki2, add processor count to JOBWILLRUN response.
-- Add event trigger for node entering DRAINED state.
-- Build properly without OpenSSL installed (OpenSSL is recommended, but not
required).
-- Added slurmdbd, and modified accounting_storage plugin to talk to it.
Allowing multiple slurm systems to securly store and gather information
not only about jobs, but the system also. See accounting web page for more
information.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre11
==============================
-- Restructure the sbcast RPC to take advantage of larger buffers available
in Slurm v1.3 RPCs.
-- In scontrol, show job's Requeue value, permit change of Requeue and Comment
values.
-- In slurmctld job record, add QOS (quality of service) value for accounting
purposes with Maui and Moab.
-- Log to a job's stderr when it is being cancelled explicitly or upon reaching
it's time limit.
-- Only permit a job's account to be changed while that job is PENDING.
-- Fix race condition in job suspend/resume (slurmd.sus_res.patch from HP).
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre10
==============================
-- Add support for node-specific "arch" (architecture) and "os" (operating
system) fields. These fields are set based upon values reported by the
slurmd daemon on each compute node using SLURM_ARCH and SLURM_OS environment
variables (if set, the uname function otherwise) and are intended to support
changes in real time changes in operating system. These values are reported
by "scontrol show node" plus the sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 plugins for Maui
and Moab respectively.
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2: add HostFormat and HidePartitionJobs to
"scontrol show config" SCHEDULER_CONF output.
-- In sched/wiki2: accept hostname expression as input for GETNODES command.
-- Add JobRequeue configuration parameter and --requeue option to the sbatch
command.
-- Add HealthCheckInterval and HealthCheckProgram configuration parameters.
-- Add SlurmDbdAddr, SlurmDbdAuthInfo and SlurmDbdPort configuration parameters.
-- Modify select/linear to achieve better load leveling with gang scheduler.
-- Develop the sched/gang plugin to support select/linear and
select/cons_res. If sched/gang is enabled and Shared=FORCE is configured
for a partition, this plugin will gang-schedule or "timeslice" jobs that
share common resources within the partition. Note that resources that are
shared across partitions are not gang-scheduled.
-- Add EpilogMsgTime configuration parameter. See "man slurm.conf" for details.
-- Increase default MaxJobCount configuration parameter from 2000 to 5000.
-- Move all database common files from src/common to new lib in src/database.
-- Move sacct to src/accounting added sacctmgr for scontrol like operations
to accounting infrastructure.
-- Basic functions of sacctmgr in place to make for administration of
accounting.
-- Moved clusteracct_storage plugin to accounting_storage plugin,
jobacct_storage is still it's own plugin for now.
-- Added template for slurm php extention.
-- Add infrastructure to support allocation of cluster-wide licenses to jobs.
Full support will be added some time after version 1.3.0 is released.
-- In sched/wiki2 with select/bluegene, add support for WILLRUN command
to accept multiple jobs with start time specifications.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre9
=============================
-- Add spank support to sbatch. Note that spank_local_user() will be called
with step_layout=NULL and gid=SLURM_BATCH_SCRIPT and spank_fini() will
be called immediately afterwards.
Danny Auble
committed
-- Made configure use mysql_config to find location of mysql database install
Removed bluegene specific information from the general database tables.
-- Re-write sched/backfill to utilize new will-run logic in the select
plugins. It now supports select/cons_res and all job options (required
nodes, excluded nodes, contiguous, etc.).
-- Modify scheduling logic to better support overlapping partitions.
-- Add --task-mem option and remove --job-mem option from srun, salloc, and
sbatch commands. Enforce step memory limit, if specified and there is
no job memory limit specified (--mem). Also see DefMemPerTask and
MaxMemPerTask in "man slurm.conf". Enforcement is dependent upon job
accounting being enabled with non-zero value for JoabAcctGatherFrequency.
-- Change default node tmp_disk size to zero (for diskless nodes).
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre8
=============================
-- Modify how strings are packed in the RPCs, Maximum string size
increased from 64KB (16-bit size field) to 4GB (32-bit size field).
-- Fix bug that prevented time value of "INFINITE" from being processed.
-- Added new srun/sbatch option "--open-mode" to control how output/error
files are opened ("t" for truncate, "a" for append).
-- Added checkpoint/xlch plugin for use with XLCH (Hongjia Cao, NUDT).
-- Added srun option --checkpoint-path for use with XLCH (Hongjia Cao, NUDT).
-- Added new srun/salloc/sbatch option "--acctg-freq" for user control over
accounting data collection polling interval.
-- In sched/wiki2 add support for hostlist expression use in GETNODES command
with HostFormat=2 in the wiki.conf file.
-- Added new scontrol option "setdebug" that can change the slurmctld daemons
debug level at any time (Hongjia Cao, NUDT).
-- Track total total suspend time for jobs and steps for accounting purposes.
-- Add version information to partition state file.
-- Added 'will-run' functionality to all of the select plugins (bluegene,
linear, and cons_res) to return node list and time job can start based
on other jobs running.
-- Major restructuring of node selection logic. select/linear now supports
partition max_share parameter and tries to match like size jobs on the
Moe Jette
committed
same nodes to improve gang scheduling performance. Also supports treating
memory as consumable resource for job preemption and gang scheduling if
SelectTypeParameter=CR_Memory in slurm.conf.
-- BLUEGENE: Reorganized bluegene plugin for maintainability sake.
-- Major restructuring of data structures in select/cons_res.
-- Support job, node and partition names of arbitrary size.
-- Fix bug that caused slurmd to hang when using select/linear with
task/affinity.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre7
=============================
-- Fix a bug in the processing of srun's --exclusive option for a job step.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre6
=============================
-- Add support for configurable number of jobs to share resources using the
partition Shared parameter in slurm.conf (e.g. "Shared=FORCE:3" for two
jobs to share the resources). From Chris Holmes, HP.
-- Made salloc use api instead of local code for message handling.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre5
=============================
-- Add select_g_reconfigure() function to node changes in slurmctld configuration
that can impact node scheduling.
-- scontrol to set/get partition's MaxTime and job's Timelimit in minutes plus
new formats: min:sec, hr:min:sec, days-hr:min:sec, days-hr, etc.
-- scontrol "notify" command added to send message to stdout of srun for
specified job id.
Moe Jette
committed
-- For BlueGene, make alpha part of node location specification be case insensitive.
-- Report scheduler-plugin specific configuration information with the
"scontrol show configuration" command on the SCHEDULER_CONF line. This
information is not found in the "slurm.conf" file, but a scheduler plugin
specific configuration (e.g. "wiki.conf").
-- sview partition information reported now includes partition priority.
-- Expand job dependency specification to support concurrent execution,
testing of job exit status and multiple job IDs.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre4
=============================
-- Job step launch in srun is now done from the slurm api's all further
modifications to job launch should be done there.
-- Add new partition configuration parameter Priority. Add job count to
Shared parameter.
-- Add new configuration parameters DefMemPerTask, MaxMemPerTask, and
SchedulerTimeSlice.
-- In sched/wiki2, return REJMESSAGE with details on why a job was
requeued (e.g. what node failed).
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre3
=============================
-- Added srun option "--checkpoint=time" for job step to automatically be
checkpointed on a period basis.
-- Change behavior of "scancel -s KILL <jobid>" to send SIGKILL to all job
steps rather than cancelling the job. This now matches the behavior of
all other signals. "scancel <jobid>" still cancels the job and all steps.
-- Add support for new job step options --exclusive and --immediate. Permit
job steps to be queued when resources are not available within an existing
job allocation to dedicate the resources to the job step. Useful for
executing simultaneous job steps. Provides resource management both at
the level of jobs and job steps.
srun --nodes=16 --constraint=graphics*4 ...
Based upon work by Kumar Krishna (HP, India).
-- Add multi-core options to salloc and sbatch commands (sbatch.patch and
cleanup.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
-- In select/cons_res properly release resources allocated to job being
suspended (rmbreak.patch, from Chris Holmes, HP).
-- Removed database and jobacct plugin replaced with jobacct_storage
and jobacct_gather for easier hooks for further expansion of the
jobacct plugin.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre2
=============================
-- Added new srun option --pty to start job with pseudo terminal attached
to task 0 (all other tasks have I/O discarded)
-- Disable user specifying jobid when sched/wiki2 configured (needed for
Moab releases until early 2007).
-- Report command, args and working directory for batch jobs with
"scontrol show job".
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre1
=============================
Christopher J. Morrone
committed
-- !!! SRUN CHANGES !!!
The srun options -A/--allocate, -b/--batch, and -a/--attach have been
removed! That functionality is now available in the separate commands
salloc, sbatch, and sattach, respectively.
-- Add new node state FAILING plus trigger for when node enters that state.
-- Add new configuration paramter "PrivateData". This can be used to
prevent a user from seeing jobs or job steps belonging to other users.
-- Added configuration parameters for node power save mode: ResumeProgram
ResumeRate, SuspendExcNodes, SuspendExcParts, SuspendProgram and
SuspendRate.
-- Slurmctld maintains the IP address (rather than hostname) for srun
communications. This fixes some possible network routing issues.
-- Added global database plugin. Job accounting and Job completion are the
first to use it. Follow documentation to add more to the plugin.
-- Removed no-longer-needed jobacct/common/common_slurmctld.c since that is
replaced by the database plugin.
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