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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 16.05.0pre3
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-- Remove the SchedulerParameters option of "assoc_limit_continue", making it
the default value. Add option of "assoc_limit_stop". If "assoc_limit_stop"
is set and a job cannot start due to association limits, then do not attempt
to initiate any lower priority jobs in that partition. Setting this can
decrease system throughput and utlization, but avoid potentially starving
larger jobs by preventing them from launching indefinitely.
-- Update a node's socket and cores per socket counts as needed after a node
boot to reflect configuration changes which can occur on KNL processors.
Note that the node's total core count must not change, only the distribution
of cores across varying socket counts (KNL NUMA nodes treated as sockets by
Slurm).
-- Rename partition configuration from "Shared" to "OverSubscribe". Rename
salloc, sbatch, srun option from "--shared" to "--oversubscribe". The old
options will continue to function. Output field names also changed in
scontrol, sinfo, squeue and sview.
-- Add SLURM_UMASK environment variable to user job.
-- knl_conf: Added new configuration parameter of CapmcPollFreq.
-- squeue: remove errant spaces in column formats for "squeue -o %all".
-- Add ARRAY_TASKS mail option to send emails to each task in a job array.
-- Change default compression library for sbcast to lz4.
-- select/cray - Initiate step node health check at start of step termination
rather than after application completely ends so that NHC can capture
information about hung (non-killable) processes.
-- Add --units=[KMGTP] option to sacct to display values in specific unit type.
-- Modify sacct and sacctmgr to display TRES values in converted units.
-- Modify sacctmgr to accept TRES values with [KMGTP] suffixes.
-- Replace hash function with more modern SipHash functions.
-- Add "--with-cray_dir" build/configure option.
-- BB- Only send stage_out email when stage_out is set in script.
-- Add r/w locking to file_bcast receive functions in slurmd.
-- Add TopologyParam option of "TopoOptional" to optimize network topology
only for jobs requesting it.
-- Configuration parameter "CpuFreqDef" used to set default governor for job
step not specifying --cpu-freq (previously the parameter was unused).
-- Fix sshare -o<format> to correctly display new lengths.
-- Update documentation to rename Shared option to OverSubscribe.
-- Update documentation to rename partition Priority option to PriorityTier.
* Changes in Slurm 16.05.0pre2
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-- Split partition's "Priority" field into "PriorityTier" (used to order
partitions for scheduling and preemption) plus "PriorityJobFactor" (used by
priority/multifactor plugin in calculating job priority, which is used to
order jobs within a partition for scheduling).
-- Revert call to getaddrinfo, restoring gethostbyaddr (introduced in Slurm
16.05.0pre1) which was failing on some systems.
-- knl_cray.conf - Added AllowMCDRAM, AllowNUMA and ALlowUserBoot
configuration options.
-- Add node_features_p_user_update() function to node_features plugin.
-- Don't print Weight=1 lines in 'scontrol write config' (its the default).
-- Remove PARAMS macro from slurm.h.
-- Remove BEGIN_C_DECLS and END_C_DECLS macros.
-- Check that PowerSave mode configured for node_features/knl_cray plugin.
It is required to reconfigure and reboot nodes.
-- Update documentation to reflect new cgroup default location change from
/cgroup to /sys/fs/cgroup.
-- If NodeHealthCheckProgram configured HealthCheckInterval is non-zero, then
modify slurmd to run it before registering with slurmctld.
-- Fix for tasks being packed onto cores when the requested --cpus-per-task is
greater than the number of threads on a core and --ntasks-per-core is 1.
-- Make it so jobs/steps track ':' named gres/tres, before hand gres/gpu:tesla
would only track gres/gpu, now it will track both gres/gpu and
gres/gpu:tesla as separate gres if configured like
AccountingStorageTRES=gres/gpu,gres/gpu:tesla
-- Added new job dependency type of "aftercorr" which will start a task of a
job array after the corresponding task of another job array completes.
-- Increase default MaxTasksPerNode configuration parameter from 128 to 512.
-- Enable sbcast data compression logic (compress option previously ignored).
-- Add --compress option to srun command for use with --bcast option.
-- Add TCPTimeout option to slurm[dbd].conf. Decouples MessageTimeout from TCP
connections.
-- Don't call primary controller for every RPC when backup is in control.
-- Add --gres-flags=enforce-binding option to salloc, sbatch and srun commands.
If set, the only CPUs available to the job will be those bound to the
selected GRES (i.e. the CPUs identifed in the gres.conf file will be
strictly enforced rather than advisory).
-- Change how a node's allocated CPU count is calculated to avoid double
counting CPUs allocated to multiple jobs at the same time.
-- Added SchedulingParameters option of "bf_min_prio_reserve". Jobs below
the specified threshold will not have resources reserved for them.
-- Added "sacctmgr show lostjobs" to report any orphaned jobs in the database.
-- When a stepd is about to shutdown and send it's response to srun
make the wait to return data only hit after 500 nodes and configurable
based on the TcpTimeout value.
-- Add functionality to reset the lft and rgt values of the association table
with the slurmdbd.
-- Add SchedulerParameter no_env_cache, if set no env cache will be use when
launching a job, instead the job will fail and drain the node if the env
isn't loaded normally.
* Changes in Slurm 16.05.0pre1
-- Add sbatch "--wait" option that waits for job completion before exiting.
Exit code will match that of spawned job.
-- Modify advanced reservation save/restore logic for core reservations to
support configuration changes (changes in configured nodes or cores counts).
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Allow ControlMachine, BackupController, DbdHost and DbdBackupHost to be
either short or long hostname.
-- Job output and error files can now contain "%" character by specifying
a file name with two consecutive "%" characters. For example,
"sbatch -o "slurm.%%.%j" for job ID 123 will generate an output file named
"slurm.%.123".
-- Pass user name in Prolog RPC from controller to slurmd when using
PrologFlags=Alloc. Allows SLURM_JOB_USER env variable to be set when using
Native Slurm on a Cray.
-- Add "NumTasks" to job information visible to Slurm commands.
-- Add mail wrapper script "smail" that will include job statistics in email
notification messages.
-- Remove vestigial "SICP" job option (inter-cluster job option). Completely
different logic will be forthcoming.
Brian Christiansen
committed
-- Fix case where the primary and backup dbds would both be performing rollup.
-- Add an ack reply from slurmd to slurmstepd when job setup is done and the
job is ready to be executed.
-- Removed support for authd. authd has not been developed and supported since
-- Introduce a new parameter requeue_setup_env_fail in SchedulerParameters.
A job that fails to setup the environment will be requeued and the node
drained.
-- Add ValidateTimeout and OtherTimeout to "scontrol show burst" output.
-- Increase default sbcast buffer size from 512KB to 8MB.
-- Enable the hdf5 profiling of the batch step.
-- Eliminate redundant environment and script files for job arrays.
-- Stop searching sbatch scripts for #PBS directives after 100 lines of
non-comments. Stop parsing #PBS or #SLURM directives after 1024 characters
into a line. Required for decent perforamnce with huge scripts.
-- Add debug flag for timing Cray portions of the code.
-- Add Multi-Category Security (MCS) infrastructure to permit nodes to be bound
to specific users or groups.
-- Install the pmi2 unix sockets in slurmd spool directory instead of /tmp.
-- Implement the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo instead of gethostbyaddr and
gethostbyname.
-- Finished PMIx implementation.
-- Implemented the --without=package option for configure.
-- Fix sshare to show each individual cluster with -M,--clusters option.
-- Added --deadline option to salloc, sbatch and srun. Jobs which can not be
completed by the user specified deadline will be terminated with a state of
"Deadline" or "DL".
-- Implemented and documented PMIX protocol which is used to bootstrap an
MPI job. PMIX is an alternative to PMI and PMI2.
-- Change default CgroupMountpoint (in cgroup.conf) from "/cgroup" to
"/sys/fs/cgroup" to match current standard.
-- Add #BSUB options to sbatch to read in from the batch script.
-- HDF: Change group name of node from nodename to nodeid.
-- The partition-specific SelectTypeParameters parameter can now be used to
change the memory allocation tracking specification in the global
SelectTypeParameters configuration parameter. Supported partition-specific
values are CR_Core, CR_Core_Memory, CR_Socket and CR_Socket_Memory. If the
global SelectTypeParameters value includes memory allocation management and
the partition-specific value does not, then memory allocation management for
that partition will NOT be supported (i.e. memory can be over-allocated).
Likewise the global SelectTypeParameters might not include memory management
while the partition-specific value does.
-- Burst buffer/cray - Add support for multiple buffer pools including support
for different resource granularity by pool.
-- Burst buffer advanced reservation units treated as bytes (per documentation)
rather than GB.
-- Add an "scontrol top <jobid>" command to re-order the priorities of a user's
pending jobs. May be disabled with the "disable_user_top" option in the
SchedulerParameters configuration parameter.
-- Modify sview to display negative job nice values.
-- Increase job's nice value field from 16 to 32 bits.
-- Remove deprecated job_submit/cnode plugin.
-- Enhance slurm.conf option EnforcePartLimit to include options like "ANY" and
"ALL". "Any" is equivalent to "Yes" and "All" will check all partitions
a job is submitted to and if any partition limit is violated the job will
be rejected even if it could possibly run on another partition.
-- Add "features_act" field (currently active features) to the node
information. Output of scontrol, sinfo, and sview changed accordingly.
The field previously displayed as "Features" is now "AvailableFeatures"
while the new field is displayed as "ActiveFeatures".
-- Remove Sun Constellation, IBM Federation Switches (replaced by NRT switch
plugin) and long-defunct Quadrics Elan support.
Janne Blomqvist
committed
-- Rework group caching to work better in environments with
enumeration disabled. Removed CacheGroups config directive, group
membership lists are now always cached, controlled by
GroupUpdateTime parameter. GroupUpdateForce parameter default
value changed to 1.
-- Add reservation flag of "purge_comp" which will purge an advanced
reservation once it has no more active (pending, suspended or running) jobs.
-- Add new configuration parameter "KNLPlugins" and plugin infrastructure.
-- Add optional job "features" to node reboot RPC.
-- Add slurmd "-b" option to report node rebooted at daemon start time. Used
for testing purposes.
-- contribs/cray: Add framework for powering nodes up and down.
-- For job constraint, convert comma separator to "&".
-- Add Max*PerAccount options for QOS.
-- Protect slurm_mutex_* calls with abort() on failure.
* Changes in Slurm 15.08.11
===========================
-- Fix for job "--contiguous" option that could cause job allocation/launch
failure or slurmctld crash.
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