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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 administrators.
* Changes in Slurm 15.08.0pre5
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-- Add jobcomp/elasticsearch plugin. Libcurl is required for build. Configure
the server as follows: "JobCompLoc=http://YOUR_ELASTICSEARCH_SERVER:9200".
-- Scancel logic large re-written to better support job arrays.
-- Added a slurm.conf parameter PrologEpilogTimeout to controll how long
prolog/epilog can run.
* Changes in Slurm 15.08.0pre4
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-- Burst_buffer/cray - Convert logic to use new commands/API names (e.g.
"dws_setup" rather than "bbs_setup").
-- Remove the MinJobAge size limitation. It can now exceed 65533 as it
is represented using an unsigned integer.
-- Verify that all plugin version numbers are identical to the component
attempting to load them. Without this verification, the plugin can reference
Slurm functions in the caller which differ (e.g. the underlying function's
arguments could have changed between Slurm versions).
NOTE: All plugins (except SPANK) must be built against the identical
version of Slurm in order to be used by any Slurm command or daemon. This
should eliminate some very difficult to diagnose problems due to use of old
plugins.
-- Increase the MAX_PACK_MEM_LEN define to avoid PMI2 failure when fencing
with large amount of ranks (to 1GB).
-- Requests by normal user to reset a job priority (even to lower it) will
result in an error saying to change the job's nice value instead.
-- SPANK naming changes: For environment variables set using the
spank_job_control_setenv() function, the values were available in the
slurm_spank_job_prolog() and slurm_spank_job_epilog() functions using
getenv where the name was given a prefix of "SPANK_". That prefix has
been removed for consistency with the environment variables available in
the Prolog and Epilog scripts.
-- Add "TopologyParam" configuration parameter. Optional value of "dragonfly"
is supported.
-- Optimize resource allocation for systems with dragonfly networks.
-- Add "--thread-spec" option to salloc, sbatch and srun commands. This is
the count of threads reserved for system use per node.
-- job_submit/lua: Enable reading and writing job environment variables.
For example: if (job_desc.environment.LANGUAGE == "en_US") then ...
-- Added two new APIs slurm_job_cpus_allocated_str_on_node_id()
and slurm_job_cpus_allocated_str_on_node() to print the CPUs id
allocated to a job.
-- Specialized memory (a node's MemSpecLimit configuration parameter) is not
available for allocation to jobs.
-- Modify scontrol update job to allow jobid specification without
the = sign. 'scontrol update job=123 ...' and 'scontrol update job 123 ...'
are both valid syntax.
-- Archive a month at a time when there are lots of records to archive.
-- Introduce new sbatch option '--kill-on-invalid-dep=yes|no' which allows
users to specify which behavior they want if a job dependency is not
satisfied.
-- Add Slurmdb::qos_get() interface to perl api.
-- If a job fails to start set the requeue reason to be:
job requeued in held state.
-- Implemented a new MPI key,value PMIX_RING() exchange algorithm as
an alternative to PMI2.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Remove possible deadlocks in the slurmctld when the slurmdbd is busy
archiving/purging.
-- Add DB_ARCHIVE debug flag for filtering out debug messages in the slurmdbd
when the slurmdbd is archiving/purging.
-- Fix some power_save mode issues: Parsing of SuspendTime in slurm.conf was
bad, powered down nodes would get set non-responding if there was an
in-flight message, and permit nodes to be powered down from any state.
-- Initialize variables in consumable resource plugin to prevent core dump.
* Changes in Slurm 15.08.0pre3
==============================
-- CRAY - addition of acct_gather_energy/cray plugin.
-- Add job credential to "Run Prolog" RPC used with a configuration of
PrologFlags=alloc. This allows the Prolog to be passed identification of
GPUs allocated to the job.
-- Add SLURM_JOB_CONSTAINTS to environment variables available to the Prolog.
-- Added "--mail=stage_out" option to job submission commands to notify user
when burst buffer state out is complete.
-- Require a "Reason" when using scontrol to set a node state to DOWN.
-- Mail notifications on job BEGIN, END and FAIL now apply to a job array as a
whole rather than generating individual email messages for each task in the
job array.
-- task/affinity - Fix memory binding to NUMA with cpusets.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Display job's estimated NodeCount based off of partition's configured
resources rather than the whole system's.
-- Add AuthInfo option of "cred_expire=#" to specify the lifetime of a job
step credential. The default value was changed from 1200 to 120 seconds.
-- Set the delay time for job requeue to the job credential lifetime (120
seconds by default). This insures that prolog runs on every node when a
job is requeued. (This change will slow down launch of re-queued jobs).
-- Add AuthInfo option of "cred_expire=#" to specify the lifetime of a job
step credential.
-- Remove srun --max-launch-time option. The option has not been functional
since Slurm version 2.0.
-- Add sockets and cores to TaskPluginParams' autobind option.
-- Added LaunchParameters configuration parameter. Have srun command test
locally for the executable file if LaunchParameters=test_exec or the
environment variable SLURM_TEST_EXEC is set. Without this an invalid
command will generate one error message per task launched.
-- Fix the slurm /etc/init.d script to return 0 upon stopping the
daemons and return 1 in case of failure.
-- Add the ability for a compute node to be allocated to multiple jobs, but
restricted to a single user. Added "--exclusive=user" option to salloc,
sbatch and srun commands. Added "owner" field to node record, visible using
the scontrol and sview commands. Added new partition configuration parameter
"ExclusiveUser=yes|no".
* Changes in Slurm 15.08.0pre2
==============================
-- Add the environment variables SLURM_JOB_ACCOUNT, SLURM_JOB_QOS
and SLURM_JOB_RESERVATION in the batch/srun jobs.
-- Properly enforce partition Shared=YES option. Previously oversubscribing
resources required gang scheduling to be configured.
-- Enable per-partition gang scheduling resource resolution (e.g. the partition
can have SelectTypeParameters=CR_CORE, while the global value is CR_SOCKET).
-- Make it so a newer version of a slurmstepd can talk to an older srun.
Brian Christiansen
committed
allocation. Nodes could have been added while waiting for an allocation.
-- Expanded --cpu-freq parameters to include min-max:governor specifications.
--cpu-freq now supported on salloc and sbatch.
-- Add support for optimized job allocations with respect to SGI Hypercube
topology.
NOTE: Only supported with select/linear plugin.
NOTE: The program contribs/sgi/netloc_to_topology can be used to build
Slurm's topology.conf file.
-- Remove 64k validation of incoming RPC nodelist size. Validated at 64MB
when unpacking.
-- In slurmstepd() add the user primary group if it is not part of the
groups sent from the client.
-- Added BurstBuffer field to advanced reservations.
-- For advanced reservation, replace flag "License_only" with flag "Any_Nodes".
It can be used to indicate the an advanced reservation resources (licenses
and/or burst buffers) can be used with any compute nodes.
-- Allow users to specify the srun --resv-ports as 0 in which case no ports
will be reserved. The default behaviour is to allocate one port per task.
-- Interpret a partition configuration of "Nodes=ALL" in slurm.conf as
including all nodes defined in the cluster.
-- Added new configuration parameters PowerParameters and PowerPlugin.
-- Added power management plugin infrastructure.
-- If job already exceeded one of its QOS/Accounting limits do not
return error if user modifies QOS unrelated job settings.
-- When caching user ids of AllowGroups use both getgrnam_r() and getgrent_r()
then remove eventual duplicate entries.
-- Remove rpm dependency between slurm-pam and slurm-devel.
-- Remove support for the XCPU (cluster management) package.
-- Add Slurmdb::jobs_get() interface to perl api.
-- Performance improvement when sending data from srun to stepds when
processing fencing.
-- Add the feature to specify arbitrary field separator when running
sacct -p or sacct -P. The command line option is --separator.
-- Introduce slurm.conf parameter to use Proportional Set Size (PSS) instead
of RSS to determinate the memory footprint of a job.
Add an slurm.conf option not to kill jobs that is over memory limit.
-- Add job submission command options: --sicp (available for inter-cluster
dependencies) and --power (specify power management options) to salloc,
sbatch, and srun commands.
-- Add DebugFlags option of SICP (inter-cluster option logging).
-- In order to support inter-cluster job dependencies, the MaxJobID
configuration parameter default value has been reduced from 4,294,901,760
to 2,147,418,112 and it's maximum value is now 2,147,463,647.
ANY JOBS WITH A JOB ID ABOVE 2,147,463,647 WILL BE PURGED WHEN SLURM IS
UPGRADED FROM AN OLDER VERSION!
-- Add QOS name to the output of a partition in squeue/scontrol/sview/smap.
* Changes in Slurm 15.08.0pre1
==============================
-- Add sbcast support for file transfer to resources allocated to a job step
rather than a job allocation.
-- Change structures with association in them to assoc to save space.
-- Add support for job dependencies jointed with OR operator (e.g.
"--depend=afterok:123?afternotok:124").
-- Add "--bb" (burst buffer specification) option to salloc, sbatch, and srun.
-- Added configuration parameters BurstBufferParameters and BurstBufferType.
-- Added burst_buffer plugin infrastructure (needs many more functions).
-- Make it so when the fanout logic comes across a node that is down we abandon
the tree to avoid worst case scenarios when the entire branch is down and
we have to try each serially.
-- Add better error reporting of invalid partitions at submission time.
-- Move will-run test for multiple clusters from the sbatch code into the API
so that it can be used with DRMAA.
-- If a non-exclusive allocation requests --hint=nomultithread on a
CR_CORE/SOCKET system lay out tasks correctly.
-- Avoid including unused CPUs in a job's allocation when cores or sockets are
allocated.
-- Added new job state of STOPPED indicating processes have been stopped with a
SIGSTOP (using scancel or sview), but retain its allocated CPUs. Job state
returns to RUNNING when SIGCONT is sent (also using scancel or sview).
-- Added EioTimeout parameter to slurm.conf. It is the number of seconds srun
waits for slurmstepd to close the TCP/IP connection used to relay data
between the user application and srun when the user application terminates.
-- Remove slurmctld/dynalloc plugin as the work was never completed, so it is
not worth the effort of continued support at this time.
-- Remove DynAllocPort configuration parameter.
-- Add advance reservation flag of "replace" that causes allocated resources
to be replaced with idle resources. This maintains a pool of available
resources that maintains a constant size (to the extent possible).
-- Added SchedulerParameters option of "bf_busy_nodes". When selecting
resources for pending jobs to reserve for future execution (i.e. the job
can not be started immediately), then preferentially select nodes that are
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