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 2.1.0-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.
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.
-- 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.
-- 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).
* 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.
-- 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.
-- 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).
-- Eliminated the redundant squeue output format and sort options of
"%o" and "%b". Use "%D" and "%S" formats respectively. Also eliminated
"%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.
-- 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 2.0.5
========================
-- 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.
-- 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 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
containning 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
* 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
========================
-- 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.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.0
========================
-- 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
============================
-- 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.
-- 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.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.0-rc1
============================
-- 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.
* 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.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre11
==============================
-- Fix slurm.spec file for RPM build.
* 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
version 1.4.0-pre7.
* 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.
* 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
which specific cores are allocated to the step.
-- 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.
-- 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.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.5
========================
-- 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.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.4
========================
-- 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).
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.2
========================
-- Get --ntasks-per-node option working for sbatch command.
-- 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).
-- 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.
-- Fix several memory leaks.
-- 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.
-- 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
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.
-- 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
=============================
-- Remove slaunch command
-- 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.
-- Add support for feature count in job constraints, for example
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
=============================
-- !!! 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.
-- Added new configuration parameter: CryptoType.
Moved existing digital signature logic into new plugin: crypto/openssl.
Added new support for crypto/munge (available with GPL license).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.36
=========================
-- For spank_get_item(S_JOB_ARGV) for batch job with script input via STDIN,
set argc value to 1 (rather than 2, argv[0] still set to path of generated
script).
-- sacct will now display more properly allocations made with salloc with only
one step.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.35
=========================
-- Permit SPANK plugins to dynamically register options at runtime base upon
configuration or other runtime checks.
-- Add "include" keywork to SPANK plugstack.conf file to optionally include
other configuration files or directories of configuration files.
-- Srun to wait indefinitely for resource allocation to be made. Used to
abort after two minutes.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.34
=========================
-- Permit the cancellation of a job that is in the process of being
requeued.
-- Ignore the show_flag when getting job, step, node or partition information
for user root.
-- Convert some functions to thread-safe versions: getpwnam, getpwuid,
getgrnam, and getgrgid to similar functions with "_r" suffix. While no
failures have been observed, a race condition would in the worst case
permit a user access to a partition not normally allowed due to the
AllowGroup specification or the wrong user identified in an accounting
record. The job would NOT be run as the wrong user.
-- For PMI only (MPICH2/MVAPICH2) base address to send messages to (the srun)
upon the address from which slurmd gets the task launch request rather then
"hostname" where srun executes.
-- Make test for StateSaveLocation directory more comprehensive.
-- For jobcomp/script plugin, PROCS environment variable is now the actual
count of allocated processors rather than the count of processes to
be started.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.33
=========================
-- Cancelled or Failed jobs will now report their job and step id on exit
-- Add SPANK items available to get: SLURM_VERSION, SLURM_VERSION_MAJOR,
SLURM_VERISON_MINOR and SLURM_VERSION_MICRO.
-- Fixed handling of SIGPIPE in srun. Abort job.
-- Fix bug introduced to MVAPICH plugin preventing use of TotalView debugger.
-- Modify slurmctld to get srun/salloc network address based upon the incoming
message rather than hostname set by the user command (backport of logic in
SLURM v1.3).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.32
=========================
-- LSF only: Enable scancel of job in RootOnly partition by the job's owner.
-- Add support for sbatch --distribution and --network options.
-- Correct pending job's wait reason to "Priority" rather than "Resources" if
required resources are being held in reserve for a higher priority job.
-- In sched/wiki2 (Moab) report a node's state as "Drained" rather than
"Draining" if it has no allocated work (An undocumented Moab wiki option,
see CRI ticket #2394).
-- Log to job's output when it is cancelled or reaches it's time limit (ported
from existing code in slurm v1.3).
-- Add support in salloc and sbatch commands for --network option.
-- Add support for user environment variables that include '\n' (e.g.
bash functions).
-- Partial rewrite of mpi/mvapich plugin for improved scalability.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.31
=========================
-- For Moab only: If GetEnvTimeout=0 in slurm.conf then do not run "su" to get
the user's environment, only use the cache file.
-- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), treat the lack of a wiki.conf file or the lack
of a configured AuthKey as a fatal error (lacks effective security).
-- For sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui or Moab) report a node's state as
Busy rather than Running when allocated if SelectType=select/linear. Moab
was trying to schedule job's on nodes that were already allocated to jobs
that were hidden from it via the HidePartitionJobs in Slurm's wiki.conf.
-- In select/cons_res improve the resource selection when a job has specified
a processor count along with a maximum node count.
-- For an srun command with --ntasks-per-node option and *no* --ntasks count,
spawn a task count equal to the number of nodes selected multiplied by the
--ntasks-per-node value.
-- In jobcomp/script: Set TZ if set in slurmctld's environment.
-- In srun with --verbose option properly format CPU allocation information
logged for clusters with 1000+ nodes and 10+ CPUs per node.
-- Process a job's --mail_type=end option on any type of job termination, not
just normal completion (e.g. all failure modes too).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.30
=========================
-- Fix for gold not to print out 720 error messages since they are
potentally harmful.
-- In sched/wiki2 (Moab), permit changes to a pending job's required features:
CMD=CHANGEJOB ARG=<jobid> RFEATURES=<features>
-- Fix for not aborting when node selection doesn't load, fatal error instead
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 DO NOT report a job's state as "Hold" if it's
dependencies have not been satisfied. This reverses a changed made in SLURM
version 1.2.29 (which was requested by Cluster Resources, but places jobs
in a HELD state indefinitely).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.29
=========================
-- Modified global configuration option "DisableRootJobs" from number (0 or 1)
to boolean (YES or NO) to match partition parameter.
-- Set "DisableRootJobs" for a partition to match the global parameters value
for newly created partitions.
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 report a node's updated features if changed
after startup using "scontrol update ..." command.
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 report a job's state as "Hold" if it's
dependencies have not been satisfied.
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 do not process incoming requests until
slurm configuration is completely loaded.
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 do not report a job's node count after it
has completed (slurm decrements the allocated node count when the nodes
transition from completing to idle state).
-- If job prolog or epilog fail, log the program's exit code.
-- In jobacct/gold map job names containing any non-alphanumeric characters
to '_' to avoid MySQL parsing problems.
-- In jobacct/linux correct parsing if command name contains spaces.
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 report make job info TASK count reflect the
actual task allocation (not requested tasks) even after job terminates.
Useful for accounting purposes only.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.28
=========================
-- Added configuration option "DisableRootJobs" for parameter
"PartitionName". See "man slurm.conf" for details.
-- Fix for faking a large system to correctly handle node_id in the task
afffinity plugin for ia64 systems.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.27
=========================
-- Record job eligible time in accounting database (for jobacct/gold only).
-- Prevent user root from executing a job step within a job allocation
belonging to another user.
-- Fixed limiting issue for strings larger than 4096 in xstrfmtcat
-- Fix bug in how Slurm reports job state to Maui/Moab when a job is requeued
due to a node failure, but we can't terminate the job's spawned processes.
Job was being reported as PENDING when it was really still COMPLETING.
-- Added patch from Jerry Smith for qstat -a output
-- Fixed looking at the correct perl path for Slurm.pm in torque wrappers.
-- Enhance job requeue on node failure to be more robust.
-- Added configuration parameter "DisableRootJobs". See "man slurm.conf"
for details.
-- Fixed issue with account = NULL in Gold job accounting plugin
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.26
=========================
-- Correct number of sockets/cores/threads reported by slurmd (from
Par Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden).
-- Update libpmi linking so that libslurm is not required for PMI use
(from Steven McDougal, SiCortex).
-- In srun and sbatch, do not check the PATH env var if an absolute pathname
of the program is specified (previously reported an error if no PATH).
-- Correct output of "sinfo -o %C" (CPU counts by node state).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.25
=========================
-- Bug fix for setting exit code in accounting for batch script.
-- Add salloc option, --no-shell (for LSF).
-- Added new options for sacct output
-- mvapich: Ensure MPIRUN_ID is unique for all job steps within a job.
(Fixes crashes when running multiple job steps within a job on one node)
-- Prevent "scontrol show job" from failing with buffer overflow when a job
has a very long Comment field.
-- Make certain that a job step is purged when a job has been completed.
Previous versions could have the job step persist if an allocated node
went DOWN and the slurmctld restarted.
-- Fix bug in sbcast that can cause communication problems for large files.
-- Add sbcast option -t/--timeout and SBCAST_TIMEOUT environment variable
to control message timeout.
-- Add threaded agent to manage a queue of Gold update requests for
performance reasons.
-- Add salloc options --chdir and --get-user-env (for Moab).
-- Modify scontrol update to support job comment changes.
-- Do not clear a DRAINED node's reason field when slurmctld restarts.
-- Do not cancel a pending job if Moab or Maui try to start it on unusable nodes.
Leave the job queued.
-- Add --requeue option to srun and sbatch (these undocumented options have no
effect in slurm v1.2, but are legitimate options in slurm v1.3).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.24
=========================
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, support non-zero UPDATE_TIME specification
for GETNODES and GETJOBS commands.
-- Bug fix for sending accounting information multiple times for same
info. patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
-- BLUEGENE - try FILE pointer rotation logic to avoid core dump on
bridge log rotate
-- Spread out in time the EPILOG_COMPLETE messages from slurmd to slurmctld
to avoid message congestions and retransmission.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.23
=========================
-- Fix for libpmi to not export unneeded variables like xstr*
-- BLUEGENE - added per partition dynamic block creation
-- fix infinite loop bug in sview when there were multiple partitions
-- Send message to srun command when a job is requeued due to node failure.
Note this will be overwritten in the output file unless JobFileAppend
is set in slurm.conf. In slurm version 1.3, srun's --open-mode=append
option will offer this control for each job.
-- Change a node's default TmpDisk from 1MB to 0MB and change job's default
disk space requirement from 1MB to 0MB.
-- In sched/wiki (Maui scheduler) specify a QOS (quality of service) by
specifying an account of the form "qos-name".
-- In select/linear, fix bug in scheduling required nodes that already have
a job running on them (req.load.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
-- For use with Moab only: change timeout for srun/sbatch --get-user-env
option to 2 secs, don't get DISPLAY environment variables, but explicitly
set ENVIRONMENT=BATCH and HOSTNAME to the execution host of the batch script.
-- Add configuration parameter GetEnvTimeout for use with Moab. See
"man slurm.conf" for details.
-- Modify salloc and sbatch to accept both "--tasks" and "--ntasks" as
equivalent options for compatibility with srun.
-- If a partition's node list contains space separators, replace them with
commas for easier parsing.
-- BLUEGENE - fixed bug in geometry specs when creating a block.
-- Add support for Moab and Maui to start jobs with select/cons_res plugin
and jobs requiring more than one CPU per task.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.22
=========================
-- In sched/wiki2, add support for MODIFYJOB option "MINSTARTTIME=<time>"
to modify a job's earliest start time.
-- In sbcast, fix bug with large files and causing sbcast to die.
-- In sched/wiki2, add support for COMMENT= option in STARTJOB and CANCELJOB
commands.
-- Avoid printing negative job run time in squeue due to clock skew.
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, add support for wiki.conf option
HidePartitionJobs (see man pages for details).
-- Update to srun/sbatch --get-user-env option logic (needed by Moab).
-- In slurmctld (for Moab) added job->details->reserved_resources field
to report resources that were kept in reserve for job while it was
pending.
-- In sched/wiki (for Maui scheduler) report a pending job's node feature
requirements (from Miguel Roa, BSC).
-- Permit a user to change a pending job's TasksPerNode specification
using scontrol (from Miguel Roa, BSC).
-- Add support for node UP/DOWN event logging in jobacct/gold plugin
WARNING: using the jobacct/gold plugin slows the system startup set the
MessageTimeout variable in the slurm.conf to around 20+.
-- Added check at start of slurmctld to look for /tmp/slurm_gold_first if
there, and using the gold plugin slurm will make record of all nodes in
downed or drained state.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.21
=========================
-- Fixed torque wrappers to look in the correct spot for the perl api
-- Do not treat user resetting his time limit to the current value as
an error.
-- Set correct executable names for Totalview when --multi-prog option
is used and more than one node is allocated to the job step.
-- When a batch job gets requeued, record in accounting logs that
the job was cancelled, the requeued job's submit time will be
set to the time of its requeue so it looks like a different job.
-- Prevent communication problems if the slurmd/slurmstepd have a
different JobAcct plugin configured than slurmctld.
-- Adding Gold plugin for job accounting
-- In sched/wiki2, add support for MODIFYJOB option "JOBNAME=<name>"
to modify a job's name.
-- Add configuration check for sys/syslog.h and include it as needed.
-- Add --propagate option to sbatch for control over limit propagation.
-- Added Gold interface to the jobacct plugin. To configure in the config
file specify...
JobAcctType=jobacct/gold
JobAcctLogFile=CLUSTER_NAME:GOLD_AUTH_KEY_FILE:GOLDD_HOST:GOLDD_PORT7112
-- In slurmctld job record, set begin_time to time when all of a job's
dependencies are met.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.20
=========================
-- In switch/federation, fix small memory leak effecting slurmd.
-- Add PMI_FANOUT_OFF_HOST environment variable to control how message
forwarding is done for PMI (MPICH2). See "man srun" for details.
-- From sbatch set SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE when --ntasks-per-node option is
specified.
-- BLUEGENE: Documented the prefix should always be lower case and the 3
digit suffix should be uppercase if any letters are used as digits.
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, add support for --cpus-per-task option.
From Miguel Ros, BSC.
-- In sched/wiki2, prevent invalid memory pointer (and likely seg fault)
for job associated with a partition that has since been deleted.
-- In sched/wiki2 plus select/cons_res, prevent invalid memory pointer
(and likely seg fault) when a job is requeued.
-- In sched/wiki, add support for job suspend, resume, and modify.
-- In sched/wiki, add suppport for processor allocation (not just node allocation)
with layout control.
-- Prevent re-sending job termination RPC to a node that has already completed
the job. Only send it to specific nodes which have not reported completion.
-- Support larger environment variables 64K instead of BUFSIZ (8k on some
systems).
-- If a job is being requeued, job step create requests will print a
warning and repeatedly retry rather than aborting.
-- Add optional mode value to srun and sbatch --get-user-env option.
-- Print error message and retry job submit commands when MaxJobCount
is reached. From Don Albert, Bull.
-- Treat invalid begin time specification as a fatal error in sbatch and
srun. From Don Albert, Bull.
-- Validate begin time specification to avoid hours >24, minutes >59, etc.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.19
=========================
*** NOTE IMPORTANT CHANGE IN RPM BUILD BELOW ****
-- slurm.spec file (used to build RPMs) was updated in order to support Mock, a
chroot build environment. See https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/mock/
for more information. The following RPMs are no longer build by default:
aix-federation, auth_none, authd, bluegene, sgijob, and switch-elan. Change
the RPMs built using the following options in ~/rpmmacros: "%_with_authd 1",
"%_without_munge 1", etc. See the slurm.spec file for more details.
-- Print warning if non-privileged user requests negative "--nice" value on
job submission (srun, salloc, and sbatch commands).
-- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, add support for srun's --ntasks-per-node
option.
-- In select/bluegene with Groups defined for Images, fix possible memory
corruption. Other configurations are not affected.
-- BLUEGENE - Fix bug that prevented user specification of linux-image,
mloader-image, and ramdisk-image on job submission.
-- BLUEGENE - filter Groups specified for image not just by submitting
user's current group, but all groups the user has access to.
-- BLUEGENE - Add salloc options to specify images to be loaded (--blrts-image,
--linux-image, --mloader-image, and --ramdisk-image).
-- BLUEGENE - In bluegene.conf, permit Groups to be comma separated in addition
to colon separators previously supported.
-- sbatch will accept batch script containing "#SLURM" options and advise
changed to "#SBATCH".
-- If srun --output or --error specification contains a task number rather
than a file name, send stdout/err from specified task to srun's stdout/err
rather than to a file by the same name as the task's number.
-- For srun --multi-prog option, verify configuration file before attempting
to launch tasks, report clear explanation of any configuration file errors.
-- For sched/wiki2, add optional timeout option to srun's --get-user-env
parameter, change default timeout for "su - <user> env" from 3 to 8 seconds.
On timeout, attempt to load env from file at StateSaveLocation/env_cache/<user>.
The format of this file is the same as output of "env" command. If there
is no env cache file, then abort the request.
-- squeue modified for completing job to remove nodes that have already
completed the job before applying node filter logic.
-- squeue formatted output option added for job comment, "%q" (the obvious
choices for letters are already in use).
-- Added configure option --enable-load-env-no-login for use with Moab. If
set then the user job runs with the environment built without a login
("su <user> env" rather than "su - <user> env").
-- Fix output of "srun -o %C" (allocated CPU count) for running jobs. This was
broken in 1.2.18 for handling requeue of Moab jobs.
-- Added logic to mpiexec wrapper to read in the MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT var
-- Updated qstat wrapper to display information for partitions (-Q) option
-- NOTE: SLURM should now work directly with Globus using the PBS GRAM.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.18
=========================
-- BLUEGENE - bug fix for smap stating passthroughs are used when they aren't
-- Fixed bug in sview to be able to edit partitions correctly
-- Fixed bug so in slurm.conf files where SlurmdPort isn't defined things
work correctly.
-- In sched/wiki2 and sched/wiki add support for batch job being requeued
in Slurm either when nodes fail or upon request.
-- In sched/wiki2 and sched/wiki with FastSchedule=2 configured and nodes
configured with more CPUs than actually exist, return a value of TASKS
equal to the number of configured CPUs that are allocated to a job rather
than the number of physical CPUs allocated.
-- For sched/wiki2, timeout "srun --get-user-env ..." command after 3 seconds
if unable to perform pseudo-login and get user environment variables.
-- Add contribs/time_login.c program to test how long pseudo-login takes
for specific users or all users. This can identify users for which Moab
job submissions are unable to set the proper environment variables.
-- Fix problem in parallel make of Slurm.
-- Fixed bug in consumable resources when CR_Core_Memory is enabled
-- Add delay in slurmctld for "scontrol shutdown" RPC to get propagated
to slurmd daemons.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.17
=========================
-- In select/cons_res properly release resources allocated to job being
suspended (rmbreak.patch, from Chris Holmes, HP).
-- Fix AIX linking problem for PMI (mpich2) support.
-- Improve PMI logic for greater scalability (up to 16k tasks run).
-- Add srun support for SLURM_THREADS and PMI_FANOUT environment variables.
-- Fix support in squeue for output format with left justification of
reason (%r) and reason/node_list (%R) output.
-- Automatically requeue a batch job when a node allocated to it fails
or the prolog fails (unless --no-requeue or --no-kill option used).
-- In sched/wiki, enable use of wiki.conf parameter ExcludePartitions to
directly schedule selected partitions without Maui control.
-- In sched/backfill, if a job requires specific nodes, schedule other jobs
ahead of it rather than completely stopping backfill scheduling for that
partition.
-- BLUEGENE - corrected logic making block allocation work in a circular
fashion instead of linear.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.16
=========================
-- Add --overcommit option to the salloc command.
-- Run task epilog from job's working directory rather than directory
where slurmd daemon started from.
-- Log errors running task prolog or task epilog to srun's output.
-- In sched/wiki2, fix bug processing condensed hostlist expressions.
-- Release contribs/mpich1.slurm.patch without GPL license.
-- Fix bug in mvapich plugin for read/write calls that return EAGAIN.
-- Don't start MVAPICH timeout logic until we know that srun is starting
an MVAPICH program.
-- Fix to srun only allocating number of nodes needed for requested task
count when combining allocation and step creation in srun.
-- Execute task-prolog within proctrack container to insure that all
child processes get terminated.
-- Fixed job accounting to work with sgi_job proctrack plugin.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.15
=========================
-- In sched/wiki2, fix bug processing hostlist expressions where hosts
lack a numeric suffix.
-- Fix bug in srun. When user did not specify time limit, it defaulted to
INFINITE rather than partition's limit.
-- In select/cons_res with SelectTypeParameters=CR_Socket_Memory, fix bug in
memory allocation tracking, mem.patch from Chris Holmes, HP.
-- Add --overcommit option to the sbatch command.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.14
=========================
-- Fix a couple of bugs in MPICH/MX support (from Asier Roa, BSC).
-- Fix perl api for AIX
-- Add wiki.conf parameter ExcludePartitions for selected partitions to
be directly schedule by Slurm without Moab control
-- Optimize load leveling for shared nodes (alloc.patch, contributed
by Chris Holmes, HP).
-- Added PMI_TIME environment variable for user to control how PMI
communications are spread out in time. See "man srun" for details.
-- Added PMI timing information to srun debug mode to aid in tuning.
Use "srun -vv ..." to see the information.
-- Added checkpoint/ompi (OpenMPI) plugin (still under development).
-- Fix bug in load leveling logic added to v1.2.13 which can cause an
infinite loop and hang slurmctld when sharing nodes between jobs.
-- Added support for sbatch to read in #PBS options from a script
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.13
=========================
-- Add slurm.conf parameter JobFileAppend.
-- Fix for segv in "scontrol listpids" on nodes not in SLURM config.
-- Add support for SCANCEL_CTLD env var.
-- In mpi/mvapich plugin, add startup timeout logic. Time based upon
SLURM_MVAPICH_TIMEOUT (value in seconds).
-- Fixed pick_step_node logic to only pick the number of nodes requested
from the user when excluding nodes, to avoid an error message.
-- Disable salloc, sbatch and srun -I/--immediate options with
Moab scheduler.
-- Added "contribs" directory with a Perl API and Torque wrappers for Torque
to SLURM migration. This directory should be used to put anything that
is outside of SLURM proper such as a different API. Perl APIs contributed
by Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
-- In sched/wiki2: add support for tasklist with node name expressions
and task counts (e.g. TASKLIST=tux[1-4]*2:tux[12-14]*4").
-- In select/cons_res with sched/wiki2: fix bug in task layout logic.
-- Removed all curses info from the bluegene plugin putting it into smap
where it belongs.
-- Add support for job time limit specification formats: min, min:sec,
hour:min:sec, and days-hour:min:sec (formerly only supported minutes).
Applies to salloc, sbatch, and srun commands.
-- Improve scheduling support for exclusive constraint list, nodes can
now be in more than one constraint specific exclusively for a job
(e.g. "srun -C [rack1|rack2|rack3|rowB] srun")
-- Create separate MPICH/MX plugin (split out from MPICH/GM plugin)
-- Increase default MessageTimeout (in slurm.conf) from 5 to 10 secs.
-- Fix bug in batch job requeue if node zero of allocation fails to respond
to task launch request.
-- Improve load leveling logic to more evenly distribute the workload
(best_load.patch, contributed by Chris Holmes, HP).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.12
=========================
-- Increase maximum message size from 1MB to 16MB (from Ernest Artiaga, BSC).
-- In PMI_Abort(), log the event and abort the entire job step.
-- Add support for additional PMI functions: PMI_Get_clique_ranks and
PMI_Get_clique_size (from Chuck Clouston, Bull).
-- Report an error when a hostlist comes in appearing to be a box but not
formatted in XYZxXYZ format.
-- Add support for partition configuration "Shared=exclusive". This is
equivalent to "srun --exclusive" when select/cons_res is configured.
-- In sched/wiki2, report the reason for a node being unavailable for the
GETNODES command using the CAT="<reason>" field.
-- In sched/wiki2 with select/linear, duplicate hostnames in HOSTLIST, one
per allocated processor.
-- Fix bug in scancel with specific signal and job lacks active steps.
-- In sched/wiki2, add support for NOTIFYJOB ARG=<jobid> MSG=<message>.
This sends a message to an active srun command.
-- salloc will now set SLURM_NPROCS to improve srun's behavior under salloc.
-- In sched/wiki2 and select/cons_res: insure that Slurm's CPU allocation
is identical to Moab's (from Ernest Artiaga and Asier Roa, BSC).
-- Added "scontrol show slurmd" command to status local slurmd daemon.
-- Set node DOWN if prolog fails on node zero of batch job launch.
-- Properly handle "srun --cpus-per-task" within a job allocation when
SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE environment varable is not set.
-- Fixed return of slurm_send_rc_msg if msg->conn_fd is < 0 set errno ENOTCONN
and return SLURM_ERROR instead of return ENOTCONN
-- Added read before we send anything down a socket to make sure the socket
is still there.
-- Add slurm.conf variables UnkillableStepProgram and UnkillableStepTimeout.
-- Enable nice file propagation from sbatch command.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.11
=========================
-- Updated "etc/mpich1.slurm.patch" for direct srun launch of MPICH1_P4
tasks. See the "README" portion of the patch for details.
-- Added new scontrol command "show hostlist <hostnames>" to translate a list
of hostnames into a hostlist expression (e.g. "tux1,tux2" -> "tux[1-2]")
and "show hostnames <list>", returns a list of of nodes (one node per line)
from SLURM hostlist expression or from SLURM_NODELIST environment variable
if no hostlist specified.
-- Add the sbatch option "--wrap".
-- Add the sbatch option "--get-user-env".
-- Added support for mpich-mx (use the mpichgm plugin).
-- Make job's stdout and stderr file access rights be based upon user's umask
at job submit time.
-- Add support for additional PMI functions: PMI_Parse_option,
PMI_Args_to_keyval, PMI_Free_keyvals and PMI_Get_options (from Puenlap Lee
and Nancy Kritkausky, Bull).
-- Make default value of SchedulerPort (configuration parameter) be 7321.
-- Use SLURM_UMASK environment variable (if set) at job submit time as umask
for spawned job.
-- Correct some format issues in the man pages (from Gennero Oliva, ICAR).
-- Added support for parallel make across an existing SLURM allocation
based upon GNU make-3.81. Patch is in "etc/make.slurm.patch".
-- Added '-b' option to sbatch for easy MOAB trasition to sbatch instead of
srun. Option does nothing in sbatch.
-- Changed wiki2's handling of a node state in Completing to return 'busy'
instead of 'running' which matches slurm version 1.1
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.10
=========================
-- Fix race condititon in jobacct/linux with use of proctrack/pgid and a
realloc issue inside proctrack/linux
-- Added MPICH1_P4 plugin for direct launch of mpich1/p4 tasks using srun
and a patched version of the mpi library. See "etc/mpich1.slurm.patch".
NOTE: This is still under development and not ready for production use.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.9
========================
-- Add new sinfo field to sort by "%E" sorts by the time associated with a
node's state (from Prashanth Tamraparni, HP).
-- In sched/wiki: fix logic for restarting backup slurmctld.
-- Preload SLURM plugins early in the slurmstepd operation to avoid
multiple dlopens after forking (and to avoid a glibc bug
that leaves dlopen locks in a bad state after a fork).
-- Added MPICH1_P4 patch to launch tasks using srun rather than rsh and
automatically generate mpirun's machinefile based upon the job's
allocation. See "etc/mpich1.slurm.patch".
-- BLUEGENE - fix for overlap mode to mark all other base partitions as used
when creating a new block from the file to insure we only use the base
partitions we are asking for.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.8
========================
-- Added mpi/mpich1_shmem plugin.
-- Fix in proctrack/sgi_job plugin that could cause slurmstepd to seg_fault
preventing timely clean-up of batch jobs in some cases.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.7
========================
-- BLUEGENE - code to make it so you can make a 36x36x36 system.
The wiring should be correct for a system with x-dim of 1,2,4,5,8,13
in emulation mode. It will work with any real system no matter the size.
-- Major re-write of jobcomp/script plugin: fix memory leak and
general code clean-up.
-- Add ability to change MaxNodes and ExcNodeList for pending job
using scontrol.
-- Purge zombie processes spawned via event triggers.
-- Add support for power saving mode (experimental code to reduce voltage
and frequency on nodes that stay in the IDLE state, for more information
see http://www.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/power_save.html). None of this
code is enabled by default.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.6
========================
-- Fix MPIRUN_PORT env variable in mvapich plugin
-- Disable setting triggers by other than user SlurmUser unless SlurmUser
is root for improved security.
-- Add event trigger for IDLE nodes.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.5
========================
-- Fix nodelist truncation in "scontrol show jobs" output
-- In mpi/mpichgm, fix potential problem formatting GMPI_PORT, from
Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
-- In sched/wiki2 - Report job's account, from Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
-- Add sbatch option "--ntasks-per-node".
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.4
========================
-- In select/cons_res - fix for function argument type mis-match in getting
CPU count for a job, from Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
-- In sched/wiki2 - Report job's tasks_per_node requirement.
-- In forward logic fix to check if the forwarding node recieves a connection
but doesn't ever get the message from the sender (network issue or
something) also check to make sure if we get something back we make sure
we account for everything we sent out before we call it good.
-- Another fix to make sure steps with requested nodes have correct cpus
accounted for and a fix to make sure the user can't allocate more
cpus than the have requested.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.3
========================
-- Cpuset logic added to task/affinity, from Don Albert (Bull) and
Moe Jette (LLNL). The /dev/cpuset file system must be mounted and
set "TaskPluginParam=cpusets" in slurm.conf to enable.
-- In sched/wiki2, fix possible overflow in job's nodelist, from
Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
-- Defer creation of new job steps until a suspended job is resumed.
-- In select/linear - fix for potential stack corruption bug.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.2
========================
-- Added new command "strigger" for event trigger management, a new
capability. See "man strigger" for details.
-- srun --get-user-env now sends su's stderr to /dev/null
-- Fix in node_scheduling logic with multiple node_sets, from
Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
-- In select/cons_res, fix for function argument type mis-match in getting
CPU count for a job.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.1
========================
-- MPICHGM support bug fixes from Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
-- Support longer hostlist strings, from Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0
========================
-- Srun to use env vars for SLURM_PROLOG, SLURM_EPILOG, SLURM_TASK_PROLOG,
and SLURM_TASK_EPILOG. patch.1.2.0-pre11.070201.envproepilog from
Dan Palermo, HP.
-- Documenation update. patch.1.2.0-pre11.070201.mchtml from Dan Palermo, HP.
-- Set SLURM_DIST_CYCLIC = 1 (needed for HP MPI, slurm.hp.env.patch).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre15
==============================
-- Fix for another spot where the backup controller calls switch/federation
code before switch/federation is initialized.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre14
==============================
-- In sched/wiki2, clear required nodes list when a job is requeued.
Note that the required node list is set to every node used when
a job is started via sched/wiki2.
-- BLUEGENE - Added display of deallocating blocks to smap and other tools.
-- Make slurmctld's working directory be same as SlurmctldLogFile (if any),
otherwise StateSaveDir (which is likely a shared directory, possibly
making core file identification more difficult).
-- Fix bug in switch/federation that results in the backup controller
aborting if it receives an epilog-complete message.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre13
==============================
-- Fix for --get-user-env.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre12
==============================
-- BLUEGENE - Added correct node info for sinfo and sview for viewing
allocated nodes in a partition.
-- BLUEGENE - Added state save on slurmctld shutdown of blocks in an error
state on real systems and total block config on emulation systems.
-- Major update to Slurm's PMI internal logic for better scalability.
Communications now supported directly between application tasks via
Slurm's PMI library. Srun sends single message to one task on each node
and that tasks forwards key-pairs to other tasks on that nodes. The old
code sent key-pairs directly to each task.
NOTE: PMI applications must re-link with this new library.
-- For multi-core support: Fix task distribution bug and add automated
tests, patch.1.2.0-pre11.070111.plane from Dan Palermo (HP).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre11
==============================
-- Add multi-core options to slurm_step_launch API.
-- Add man pages for slurm_step_launch() and related functions.
-- Jobacct plugin only looks at the proctrack list instead of the entire
list of processes running on the node. Cutting down a lot of unnecessary
file opens in linux and cutting down the time to query the procs by
more than half.
-- Multi-core bug fix, mask re-use with multiple job steps,
patch.1.2.0-pre10.061214.affinity_stepid from Dan Palermo (HP).
-- Modify jobacct/linux plugin to completely eliminate open /proc files.
-- Added slurm_sched_plugin_reconfig() function to re-read config files.
-- BLUEGENE - --reboot option to srun, salloc, and sbatch actually works.
-- Modified step context and step launch APIs.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre10
==============================
-- Fix for sinfo node state counts by state (%A and %F output options).
-- Add ability to change a node's features via "scontrol update". NOTE:
Update slurm.conf also to preserve changes over slurmctld restart or
reconfig.
NOTE: Job and node state information can not be preserved from earlier
versions.
-- Added new slurm.conf parameter TaskPluginParam.
-- Fix for job requeue and credential revoke logic from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
-- Fix for incorrectly generated masks for task/affinity plugin,
patch.1.2.0-pre9.061207.bitfmthex from Dan Palermo (HP).
-- Make mask_cpu options of srun and slaunch commands not requeue prefix
of "0x". patch.1.2.0-pre9.061208.srun_maskparse from Dan Palermo (HP).
-- Add -c support to the -B automatic mask generation for multi-core
support, patch.1.2.0-pre9.061208.mcore_cpuspertask from Dan Palermo (HP).
-- Fix bug in MASK_CPU calculation,
patch.1.2.0-pre9.061211.avail_cpuspertask from Dan Palermo (HP).
-- BLUEGENE - Added --reboot option to srun, salloc, and sbatch commands.
-- Add "scontrol listpids [JOBID[.STEPID]]" support.
-- Multi-core support patches, fixed SEGV and clean up output for large
task counts, patch.1.2.0-pre9.061212.cpubind_verbose from Dan Palermo (HP).
-- Make sure jobacct plugin files are closed before exec of user tasks to
prevent problems with job checkpoint/restart (based on work by
Hongjia Cao, NUDT).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre9
=============================
-- Fix for select/cons_res state preservation over slurmctld restart,
patch.1.2.0-pre7.061130.cr_state from Dan Palermo.
-- Validate product of socket*core*thread count on node registration rather
than individual values. Correct values will need to be specified in slurm.conf
with FastSchedule=1 for correct multi-core scheduling behavior.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre8
=============================
-- Modity job state "reason" field to report why a job failed (previously
previously reported only reason waiting to run). Requires cold-start of
slurmctld (-c option).
-- For sched/wiki2 job state request, return REJMESSAGE= with reason for
a job's failure.
-- New FastSchedule configuration parameter option "2" means to base
scheduling decisions upon the node's configuration as specified in
slurm.conf and ignore the node's actual hardware configuration. This
can be useful for testing.
-- Add sinfo output format option "%C" for CPUs (active/idle/other/total).
Based upon work by Anne-Marie Wunderlin (BULL).
-- Assorted multi-core bug fixes (patch1.2.0-pre7.061128.mcorefixes).
-- Report SelectTypeParameters from "scontrol show config".
-- Build sched/wiki plugin for Maui Scheduler (based upon new sched/wiki2
code for Moab Scheduler).
-- BLUEGENE - changed way of keeping track of smaller partitions using
ionode range instead of quarter nodecard notation.
(i.e. bgl000[0-3] instead of bgl000.0.0)
-- Patch from Hongjia Cao (EINPROGRESS error message change)
-- Fix for correct requid for jobacct plugin
-- Added subsec timing display for sacct
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre7
=============================
-- BLUEGENE - added configurable images for bluegene block creation.
-- Plug a bunch of memory leaks.
-- Support processors, core, and physical IDs that are not in numeric
order (in slurmd to gathering node state information, based on patch
by Don Albert, Bull).
-- Fixed bug with aix not looking in the correct dir for the proctrack
include files
-- Removed global_srun.* from common merged it into srun proper
-- Added bluegene section to troubleshooting guide (web page).
-- NOTE: Requires cold-start when moving from 1.2.0-pre6, save state
info for jobs changed.
-- BLUEGENE - Changed logic for wiring bgl blocks to be more maintainable.
(Haven't tested on large system yet, works on 2 base partition system)
-- Do not read the select/cons_res state save file if slurmctld is
cold-started (with the "-c" option).
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre6
=============================
-- Maintain actually job step run time with suspend/resume use.
-- Allow slurm.conf options to appear multiple times. SLURM will use the
last instance of any particular option.
-- Add version number to node state save file. Will not recover node
state information on restart from older version.
-- Add logic to save/restore multi-core state information.
-- Updated multi-core logic to use types uint16_t and uint32_t instead
of just type int.
-- Race condition for forwarding logic fix from Hongjia Cao
-- Add support for Portable Linux Processor Affinity (PLPA, see
http://www.open-mpi.org/software/plpa).
-- When a job epilog completes on all non-DOWN nodes, immediately purge
it's job steps that lack switch windows. Needed for LSF operation.
Based upon slurm.hp.node_fail.patch.
-- Modify srun to ignore entries on --nodelist for job step creation
if their count exceeds the task count. Based on slurm.hp.srun.patch.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre5
=============================
-- Patch from HP patch.1.2.0.pre4.061017.crcore_hints, supports cores as
consumable resource.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre4
=============================
-- Added node_inx to job_step_info_t to get the node indecies for mapping out
steps in a job by nodes.
-- sview grid added
-- BLUEGENE node_inx added to blocks for reference.
-- Automatic CPU_MASK generation for task launch, new srun option -B.
-- Automatic logical to physical processor identification and mapping.
-- Added new srun options to --cpu_bind: sockets, cores, and threads
-- Updated select/cons_res to operate as socket granularity.
-- New srun task distribution options to -m: plane
-- Multi-core support in sinfo, squeue, and scontrol.
-- Memory can be treated as a consumable resource.
-- New srun options --ntasks-per-[node|socket|core].
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre3
=============================
-- Remove configuration parameter ShedulerAuth (defunct).
-- Add NextJobId to "scontrol show config" output.
-- Add new slurm.conf parameter MailProg.
-- New forwarding logic. New recieve_msg functions depending on what you
are expecting to get back. No srun_node_id anymore passed around in
a slurm_msg_t
-- Remove sched/wiki plugin (use sched/wiki2 for now)
-- Disable pthread_create() for PMI_send when TotalView is running for
better performance.
-- Fixed certain tests in test suite to not run with bluegene or front-end
systems
-- Removed addresses from slurm_step_layout_t
-- Added new job field, "comment". Set by srun, salloc and sbatch. See
with "scontrol show job". Used in sched/wiki2.
-- Report a job's exit status in "scontrol show job".
-- In sched/wiki2: add support for JOBREQUEUE command.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre2
=============================
-- Added function slurm_init_slurm_msg to be used to init any slurm_msg_t
you no longer need do any other type of initialization to the type.
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre2
=============================
-- Fixed task dist to work with hostfile and warn about asking for more tasks
than you have nodes for in arbitray mode.
-- Added "account" field to job and step accounting information and sacct output.
-- Moved task layout to slurmctld instead of srun. Job step create returns
step_layout structure with hostnames and addresses that corrisponds
to those nodes.
-- Changed api slurm_lookup_allocation params,
resource_allocation_response_msg_t changed to job_alloc_info_response_msg_t
this structure is being renamed so contents are the same.
-- alter resource_allocation_response_msg_t see slurm.h.in
-- remove old_job_alloc_msg_t and function slurm_confirm_alloc
-- Slurm configuration files now support an "Include" directive to
include other files inline.
-- BLUEGENE New --enable-bluegene-emulation configure parameter to allow
running system in bluegene emulation mode. Only
really useful for developers.
-- New added new tool sview GUI for displaying slurm info.
-- fixed bug in step layout to lay out tasks correctly
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre1
=============================
-- Fix bug that could run a job's prolog more than once
-- Permit batch jobs to be requeued, scontrol requeue <jobid>
-- Send overcommit flag from srun in RPCs and have slurmd set SLURM_OVERCOMMIT
flag at batch job launch time.
-- Added new configuration parameter MessageTimeout (replaces #define in
the code)
-- Added support for OSX build.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.37
=========================
- In sched/wiki2: Add NAME to job record.
- Changed -w (--nodelist) option to only read in number of nodes specified
by -N option unless nprocs was set and in Arbitrary layout mode.
- Added some loops around pthread creates incase they fail and also fixed an
issue in srun to fail job has failed instead of waiting around for threads
that will never end.
- Added fork handlers in the slurmstepd
- In sched/wiki2: fix logic for restarting backup slurmctld.
- In sched/wiki2: if job has no time limit specified, return the partition's
time limit (which is the default for the job) rather than 365 days.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.36
=========================
- Permit node state specification of DRAIN in slurm.conf.
- In jobcomp/script - fix bug that prevented UID and JOBID environment
variables from being set.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.35
=========================
- In sched/wiki2: Add support for CMD=SIGNALJOB to accept option
of VALUE=SIGXXX in addition to VALUE=# and VALUE=XXX options.
- In sched/wiki2: Add support for CMD=MODIFYJOB to accept option of
DEPEND=afterany:<jobid>, specify jobid=0 to clear.
- Correct logic for job allocation with task count (srun -n ...) AND
FastSchedule=0 AND low CPUs count in Slurm's node configuration.
- Add new and undocumented scancel option, --ctld, to route signal
requests through slurmctld rather than directly to slurmd daemons.
Useful for testing purposes.
- Fixed issue with hostfile support not working in a job step.
- Set supplemental groups for SlurmUser in slurmctld daemon, from
Anne Marie Wunderlin, Bull.
- In jobcomp/script: Add ACCOUNT and PROCS (count) to environment
variables set. Fix bug that prevented UID and JOBID from being
overwritten.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.34
=========================
- Insure that slurm_signal_job_step() is defined in srun for mvapich
and mpichgm error conditions.
- Modify /etc/init.d/slurm restart command to wait for daemon to terminate
before starting a new one
- Permit job steps to be started on draining nodes that have already
been allocated to that job.
- Prevent backup slurmctld from purging pending batch job scripts when a
SIGHUP is received.
- BLUEGENE - check to make sure set_block_user works when the block
is in a ready state.
- Fix to slurmstepd to not use local variables in a pthread create.
- In sched/wiki2 - add wiki.conf paramter HostFormat specifying
format of hostlists exchanged between Slurm and Moab (experimental).
- mpi/mvapich: Support Adam Moody's fast MPI initialization protocol
(MVAPICH protocol version 8).
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.33
=========================
- sched/wiki2 - Do not wait for job completion before permitting
additional jobs to be scheduled.
- Add srun SLURM_EXCLUSIVE environment variable support, from
Gilles Civario (Bull).
- sched/wiki2 - Report job's node sharing options.
- sched/wiki2 - If SchedulerPort is in use, retry opening it indefinitely.
- sched/wiki2 - Add support for changing the size of a pending job.
- BLUEGENE - Fix to correctly look at downed/drained nodes with picking
a block to run a job and not confuse it with another running job.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.32
=========================
- If a job's stdout/err file names are unusable (bad path), use the
default names.
- sched/wiki2 - Fix logic to be compatible with select/cons_res plugin
for allocating individual processors within nodes.
- Fix job end time calculation when changed from an initial value of
INFINITE.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.31
=========================
- Correctly identify a user's login shell when running "srun -b --uid"
as root. Use the --uid field for the /etc/passwd lookup instead of
getuid().
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.30
=========================
- Fix to make sure users don't include and exclude the same node in
their srun line.
- mpi/mvapich: Forcibly terminate job 60s after first MPI_Abort()
to avoid waiting indefinitely for hung processes.
- proctrack/sgi_job: Fix segv when destroying an active job container
with processes still running.
- Abort a job's stdout/err to srun if not processed within 5 minutes
(prevents node hanging in completing state if the srun is stopped).
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.29
=========================
- Fix bug which could leave orphan process put into background from
batch script.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.28
=========================
- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue with nodes that return to service outside of an
admin state is now updated in the bluegene plugin.
- Fix for --get-user-env parsing of non-printing characters in users' logins.
- Restore "squeue -n localhost" support.
- Report lack of PATH env var as verbose message, not error in srun.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.27
=========================
- Fix possible race condition for two simultaneous "scontrol show config"
calls resulting in slurm_xfree() Error: from read_config.c:642
- BLUEGENE - Put back logic to make a block fail a boot 3 times before
cancelling a users job.
- Fix problem using srun --exclude option for a job step.
- Fix problem generating slurmd error "Unrecognized request: 0" with
some compilers.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.26
=========================
- In sched/wiki2, fixes for support of job features.
- In sched/wiki2, add "FLAGS=INTERACTIVE;" to GETJOBS response for
non-batch (not srun --batch) jobs.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.25
=========================
- switch/elan: Fix for "Failed to initialise stats structure" from
libelan when ELAN_STATKEY > MAX_INT.
- Tune PMI support logic for better scalability and performance.
- Fix for running a task on each node of an allocation if not specified.
- In sched/wiki2, set TASKLIST for running jobs.
- In sched/wiki2, set STARTDATE for pending jobs with deferred start.
- Added srun --get-user-env option (for Moab scheduler).
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.24
=========================
- In sched/wiki2, add support for direct "srun --dependency=" use.
- mpi/mvapich: Add support for MVAPICH protocol version 6.
- In sched/wiki2, change "JOBMODIFY" command to "MODIFYJOB".
- In sched/wiki2, change "JOBREQUEUE" command to "REQUEUEJOB".
- For sched/wiki2, permit normal user to specify arbitrary job id.
- In sched/wiki2, set buffer pointer to NULL after free() to avoid
possible memory corruption.
- In sched/wiki2, report a job's exit code on completion.
- For AIX, fix mail for job event notification.
- Add documentation for propagation options in man srun and slurm.conf.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.23
=========================
- Fix bug in non-blocking connect() code affecting AIX.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.22
=========================
- Add squeue option to print a job step's task count (-o %A).
- Initialize forward_struct to avoid trying to free a bad pointer,
patch from Anton Blanchard (SAMBA).
- In sched/wiki2, fix fatal race condition on slurmctld startup.
- Fix for displaying launching verbose messages for each node under the
tree instead of just the head one.
- Fix job suspend bug, job accounting plugin would SEGV when given a
bad job ID.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.21
=========================
- BLUEGENE - Wait on a fini to make sure all threads are finished before
cleaning up.
- BLUEGENE - replacements to not destroy lists but just empty it to avoid
losing the pointer to the list in the block allocator.
- BLUEGENE - added --enable-bluegene-emulation configure option to 1.1
- In sched/wiki2, enclose a job's COMMENT value in double quotes.
- In sched/wiki2, support newly defined SIGNALJOB command.
- In sched/wiki2, maintain open event socket, don't open and close
for each event.
- In sched/wiki2, fix for scalability problem starting large jobs.
- Fix logic to execute a batch job step (under an existing resource
allocation) as needed by LSF.
- Patches from Hongjia Cao (pmi finialize issues and type declaration)
- Delete pending job if it's associated partition is deleted.
- fix for handling batch steps completing correctly and setting the
return code.
- Altered ncurses check to make sure programs can link before saying we
have a working curses lib and header.
- Fixed an init issue with forward_struct_init not being set correctly in
a few locations in the slurmd.
- Fix for user to use the NodeHostname (when specified in the slurm.conf file)
to start jobs on.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.20
=========================
- Added new SPANK plugin hook slurm_spank_local_user_init() called
from srun after node allocation.
- Fixed bug with hostfile support not working on a direct srun
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.19
=========================
- BLUEGENE - make sure the order of blocks read in from the bluegene.conf
are created in that order (static mode).
- Fix logic in connect(), slurmctld fail-over was broken in v1.1.18.
- Fix logic to calculate the correct timeout for fan out.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.18
=========================
- In sched/wiki2, add support for EHost and EHostBackup configuration
parameters in wiki.conf file
- In sched/wiki2, fix memory management bug for JOBWILLRUN command.
- In sched/wiki2, consider job Busy while in Completing state for
KillWait+10 seconds (used to be 30 seconds).
- BLUEGENE - Fixes to allow full block creation on the system and not to add
passthrough nodes to the allocation when creating a block.
- BLUEGENE - Fix deadlock issue with starting and failing jobs at the same
time
- Make connect() non-blocking and poll() with timeout to avoid huge
waits under some conditions.
- Set "ENVIRONMENT=BATCH" environment variable for "srun --batch" jobs only.
- Add logic to save/restore select/cons_res state information.
- BLUEGENE - make all sprintf's into snprintf's
- Fix for "srun -A" segfault on a node failure.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.17
=========================
- BLUEGENE - fix to make dynamic partitioning not go create block where
there are nodes that are down or draining.
- Fix srun's default node count with an existing allocation when neither
SLURM_NNODES nor -N are set.
- Stop srun from setting SLURM_DISTRIBUTION under job steps when a
specific was not explicitly requested by the user.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.16
=========================
- BLUEGENE - fix to make prolog run 5 minutes longer to make sure we have
enough time to free the overlapping blocks when starting a new job on a
block.
- BLUEGENE - edit to the libsched_if.so to read env and look at
MPIRUN_PARTITION to see if we are in slurm or running mpirun natively.
- Plugins are now dlopened RTLD_LAZY instead of RTLD_NOW.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.15
=========================
- BLUEGENE - fix to be able to create static partitions
- Fixed fanout timeout logic.
- Fix for slurmctld timeout on outgoing message (Hongjia Cao, NUDT.edu.cn).
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.14
=========================
- In sched/wiki2: report job/node id and state only if no changes since
time specified in request.
- In sched/wiki2: include a job's exit code in job state information.
- In sched/wiki2: add event notification logic on job submit and completion.
- In sched/wiki2: add support for JOBWILLRUN command type.
- In sched/wiki2: for job info, include required HOSTLIST if applicable.
- In sched/wiki2: for job info, replace PARTITIONMASK with RCLASS (report
partition name associated with a job, but no task count)
- In sched/wiki2: for job and node info, report all data if TS==0,
volitile data if TS<=update_time, state only if TS>update_time
- In sched/wiki2: add support for CMD=JOBSIGNAL ARG=jobid SIGNAL=name or #
- In sched/wiki2: add support for CMD=JOBMODIFY ARG=jobid [BANK=name]
[TIMELIMIT=minutes] [PARTITION=name]
- In sched/wiki2: add support for CMD=INITIALIZE ARG=[USEHOSTEXP=T|F]
[EPORT=#]; RESPONSE=EPORT=# USEHOSTEXP=T
- In sched/wiki2: fix memory leak.
- Fix sinfo node state filtering when asking for idle nodes that are also
draining.
- Add Fortran extension to slurm_get_rem_time() API.
- Fix bug when changing the time limit of a running job that has previously
been suspended (formerly failed to account for suspend time in setting
termination time).
- fix for step allocation to be able to specify only a few nodes in a
step and ask for more that specified.
- patch from Hongjia Cao for forwarding logic
- BLUEGENE - able to allocate specific nodes without locking up.
- BLUEGENE - better tracking of blocks that are created dynamically,
less hitting the db2.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.13
=========================
- Fix hang in sched/wiki2 if Moab stops responding responding when
response is outgoing.
- BLUEGENE - fix to make sure the block is good to go when picking it
- BLUEGENE - add libsched_if.so so mpirun doesn't try to create a block
by itself.
- Enable specification of srun --jobid=# option with --batch (for user root).
- Verify that job actually starts when requested by sched/wiki2.
- Add new wiki.conf parameters: EPort and JobAggregationTime for event
notification logic (see wiki.conf man page for details)
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.12
=========================
- Sched/wiki2 to report a job's account as COMMENT response to GETJOBS
request.
- Add srun option "--comment" (maps to job account until slurm v1.2,
needed for Moab scheduler functionality).
- fixed some timeout issues in the controller hopefully stopping all the
issues with excessive timeouts.
- unit conversion (i.e. 1024 => 1k) only happens on bgl systems for node
count.
- Sched/wiki2 to report a job's COMPETETIME and SUSPENDTIME in GETJOBS
response.
- Added support for Mellanox's version of mvapich-0.9.7.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.11
=========================
- Update file headers adding permission to link with OpenSSL.
- Enable sched/wiki2 message authentication.
- Fix libpmi compilation issue.
- Remove "gcc-c++ python" from slurm.spec BuildRequires. It breaks
the AIX build, so we'll have to find another way to deal with that.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.10
=========================
-- task distribution fix for steps that are smaller than job allocation.
-- BLUEGENE - fix to only send a success when block was created when trying
to allocate the block.
-- fix so if slurm_send_recv_node_msg fails on the send the auth_cred returned
by the resp is NULL.
-- Fix switch/federation plugin so backup controller can assume control
repeatedly without leaking or corrupting memory.
-- Add new error code (for Maui/Moab scheduler): ESLURM_JOB_HELD
-- Tweak slurmctld's node ping logic to better handle failed nodes with
hierarchical communications fail-over logic.
-- Add support for sched/wiki specific configuration file "wiki.conf".
-- Added sched/wiki2 plugin (new experimental wiki plugin).
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.9
========================
-- BLUEGENE - fix to handle a NO_VAL sent in as num procs in the job
description.
-- Fix bug in slurmstepd code for parsing --multi-prog command script.
Parser was failing for commands with no arguments.
-- Fix bug to check unsigned ints correctly in bitstring.c
-- Alter node count covert to kilo to only convert number divisible by
1024 or 512
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.8
========================
-- Added bug fixes (fault-tolerance and memory leaks) from Hongjia Cao
<hjcao@nudt.edu.cn>
-- Gixed some potential BLUEGENE issues with the bridge log file not having
a mutex around the fclose and fopen.
-- BLUEGENE - srun -n procs now regristers correctly
-- Fixed problem with reattach double allocating step_layout->tids
-- BLUEGENE - fix race condition where job is finished before it starts.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.7
========================
-- BLUEGENE - fixed issue with doing an allocation for nodes since asking
for 32,128, or 512 all mean 1 to the controller.
-- Add "Include" directive to slurm.conf files. If "Include" is found
at the beginning of a line followed by whitespace and then
the full path to a file, that file is included inline with the current
slurm.conf file.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.6
========================
-- Improved task layout for relative positions
-- Fixed heterogeous cpu overcommit issue
-- Fix bug where srun would hang if it ran on one node and that
node's slurmd died
-- Fix bug where srun task layout would be bad when min-max node range is
specified (e.g. "srun -N1-4 ...")
-- Made slurmctld_conf.node_prefix only be set on Bluegene systems.
-- Fixed a race condition in the controller to make it so a plugin thread
wouldn't be able to access the slurmctld_conf structure before it was
filled.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.5
========================
-- Ignore partition's MaxNodes for SlurmUser and root.
-- Fix possible memory corruption with use of PMI_KVS_Create call.
-- Fix race condition when multiple PMI_KVS_Barrier calls.
-- Fix logic in which slurmctld outgoing RPC requests could get delayed.
-- Fix logic for laying out steps without a hostlist.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.4
========================
-- Improve error handling in hierarchical communications logic.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.3
========================
-- Fix big-endian bug in the bitstring code which plagued AIX.
-- Fix bug in handling srun's --multi-prog option, could go off end of buffer.
-- Added support for job step completion (and switch window release) on
subset of allocated nodes.
-- BLUEGENE - removed configure option --with-bg-link bridge is linked with
dlopen now no longer needing fake database so files on frontend node.
-- BLUEGENE - implemented use of rm_get_partition_info instead of
...partitions_info which has made a much better design improving stability.
-- Streamline PMI communications and increase timeouts for highly parallel
jobs. Improves scalability of PMI.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.2
========================
-- Fix bug in jobcomp/filetxt plugin to report proper NodeCnt when a job
fails due to a node failure.
-- Fix Bluegene configure to work with the new 64bit libs.
-- Fix bug in controller that causes it to segfault when hit with a malformed
message.
-- For "srun --attach=X" to other users job, report an error and exit (it
previously just hung).
-- BLUEGENE - fix for doing correct small block logic on user error.
-- BLUEGENE - Added support in slurmd to create a fake libdb2.so if it
doesn't exist so smap won't seg fault
-- BLUEGENE - "scontrol show job" reports "MaxProcs=None" and "Start=None"
if values are not specified at job submit time
-- Add retry logic for PMI communications, may be needed for highly parallel
jobs.
-- Fix bug in slurmd where variable is used in logging message after freed
(slurmstepd rank info).
-- Fix bug in scontrol show daemons if NodeName=localhost will work now to
display slurmd as place where it is running.
-- Patch from HP for init nodes before init_bitmaps
-- ctrl-c killed sruns will result in job state as cancelled instead of
completed.
-- BLUEGENE - added configure option --with-bg-link to choose dynamic linking
or static linking with the bridgeapi.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.1
========================
-- Fix bug in packing job suspend/resume RPC.
-- If a user breaks out of srun before the allocation takes place, mark the
job as CANCELLED rather than COMPLETED and change its start and end time
to that time.
-- Fix bug in PMI support that prevented use of second PMI_Barrier call.
This fix is needed for MVAPICH2 use.
-- Add "-V" options to slurmctld and slurmd to print version number and exit.
-- Fix scalability bug in sbcast.
-- Fix bug in cons_res allocation strategy.
-- Fix bug in forwarding with mpi
-- Fix bug sacct forwarding with stat option
-- Added nodeid to sacct stat information
-- cleaned up way slurm_send_recv_node_msg works no more clearing errno
-- Fix error handling bug in the networking code that causes the slurmd to
xassert if the server is not running when the slurmd tries to register.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0
========================
-- Fix bug that could temporarily make nodes DOWN when they are really
responding.
-- Fix bug preventing backup slurmctld from responding to PING RPCs.
-- Set "CFLAGS=-DISO8601" before configuration to get ISO8601 format
times for all SLURM commands. NOTE: This may break Moab, Maui, and/or
LSF schedulers.
-- Fix for srun -n and -O options when paired with -b.
-- Added logic for fanout to failover to forward list if main node is
unreachable
-- sacct also now keeps track of submitted, started and ending times of jobs
-- reinit config file mutex at beginning of slurmstepd to avoid fork issues
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre8
=============================
-- Fix bug in enforcement of partition's MaxNodes limit.
-- BLUEGENE - added support for srun -w option also fixed the geometry option
for srun.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre7
=============================
-- Accounting works for aix systems, use jobacct/aix
-- Support large (over 2GB) files on 32-bit linux systems
-- changed all writes to safe_write in srun
-- added $float to globals.example in the testsuite
-- Set job's num_proc correctly for jobs that do not have exclusive use
of it's allocated nodes.
-- Change in support for test suite: 'testsuite/expect/globals.example'
is now 'testsuite/expect/globals' and you can override variable
settings with a new file 'testsuite/expect/globals.local'.
-- Job suspend now sends SIGTSTP, sleep(1), sends SIGSTOP for better
MPI support.
-- Plug a bunch of memory leaks in various places.
-- Bluegene - before assigning a job to a block the plugin will check the bps
to make sure they aren't in error state.
-- Change time format in job completion logging (JobCompType=jobcomp/filetxt)
from "MM/DD HH:MM:SS" to "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS", conforming with the ISO8601
standard format.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre6
=============================
-- Added logic to "stat" a running job with sacct option -S use -j to specify
job.step
-- removed jobacct/bluegene (no real need for this) meaning, I don't think
there is a way to gather the data yet.
-- Added support for mapping "%h" in configured SlurmdLog to the hostname.
-- Add PropagatePrioProcess to control propagation of a user's nice value
to spawned tasks (based upon work by Daniel Christians, HP).
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre5
=============================
-- Added step completion RPC logic
-- Vastly changed sacct and the jobacct plugin. Read documentation for full
details.
-- Added jobacct plugin for AIX and BlueGene, they currently don't work,
but infrastructure is in place.
-- Add support for srun option --ctrl-comm-ifhn to set PMI communications
address (Hongjia Cao, National University of Defense Technology).
-- Moved safe_read/write to slurm_protocol_defs.h removing multiple copies.
-- Remove vestigial functions slurm_allocate_resources_and_run() and
slurm_free_resource_allocation_and_run_response_msg().
-- Added support for different executable files and arguments by task based
upon a configuration file. See srun's --multi-prog option (based upon
work by Hongjia Cao, National University of Defense Technology).
-- moved the way forward logic waited for fanout logic mostly eliminating
problems with scalability issues.
-- changed -l option in sacct to display different params see sacct/sacct.h
for details.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre4
=============================
-- Bluegene specific - Added support to set bluegene block state to
free/error via scontrol update BlockName
-- Add needed symbol to select/bluegene in order to load plugin.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre3
=============================
-- Added framework for XCPU job launch support.
-- New general configuration file parser and slurm.conf handling code.
Allows long lines to be continued on the next line by ending with a "\".
Whitespace is allowed between the key and "=", and between the "=" and
value.
WARNING: A NodeName may now occur only once in a slurm.conf file.
If you want to temporarily make nodes DOWN in the slurm.conf,
use the new DownNodes keyword (see "man slurm.conf").
-- Gracefully handle request to submit batch job from within an existing
batch job.
-- Warn user attempting to create a job allocation from within an existing job
allocation.
-- Add web page description for proctrack plugin.
-- Add new function slurm_get_rem_time() for job's time limit.
-- JobAcct plugin renamed from "log" to "linux" in preparation for support of
new system types.
WARNING: "JobAcctType=jobacct/log" is no longer supported.
-- Removed vestigal 'bg' names from bluegene plugin and smap
-- InactiveLimit parameter is not enforced for RootOnly partitions.
-- Update select/cons_res web page (Susanne Balle, HP,
cons_res_doc_patch_3_29_06).
-- Build a "slurmd.test" along with slurmd. slurmd.test has the path to
slurmstepd set allowing it to run unmodified out of the builddir for
testing (Mark Grondona).
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre2
=============================
-- Added "bcast" command to transmit copies of a file to compute nodes
with message fanout.
-- Bluegene specific - Added support for overlapping partitions and
dynamic partitioning.
-- Bluegene specific - Added support for nodecard sized blocks.
-- Added logic to accept 1k for 1024 and so on for --nodes option of srun.
This logic is through display tools such as smap, sinfo, scontrol, and
squeue.
-- Added bluegene.conf man page.
-- Added support for memory affinity, see srun --mem_bind option.
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre1
=============================
-- New --enable-multiple-slurmd configure parameter to allow running
more than one copy of slurmd on a node at the same time. Only
really useful for developers.
-- New communication is now branched on all processes to slurmd's from
slurmctld and srun launch command. This is done with a tree type
algorithm. Spawn and batch mode work the same as before. New slurm.conf
variable TreeWidth=50 is default. This is the number of threads per
stop on the tree.
-- Configuration parameter HeartBeatInterval is depracated. Now used half
of SlurmdTimeout and SlurmctldTimeout for communications to slurmd and
slurmctld daemons repsectively.
-- Add hash tables for select/cons_res plugin (Susanne Balle, HP,
patch_02222006).
-- Remove some use of cr_enabled flag in slurmctld job record, use
new flag "test_only" in select_g_job_test() instead.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.17
=========================
-- Set correct user groups for task epilogs.
-- Add more debugging for tracking slow slurmd job initiations
(slurm.hp.replaydebug.patch).
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.16
=========================
-- For "srun --attach=X" to other users job, report an error and exit (it
previously just hung).
-- Make sure that "scancel -s KILL" terminates the job just like "scancel"
including deletion of all job steps (Chris Holmes, HP, slurm,patch).
-- Recognize ISO-8859 input to srun as a script (for non-English scripts).
-- switch/elan: Fix bug in propagation of ELAN_STATKEY environment variable.
-- Fix bug in slurmstepd IO code that can result in it spinning if a
certain error occurs.
-- Remove nodes from srun's required node list if their count exceeds
the number of requested tasks.
-- sched/backfill to schedule around jobs that are hung in a completing
state.
-- Avoid possibly re-running the epilog for a job on slurmctld restart or
reconfig by saving and restoring a hostlist of nodes still completing
the job.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.15
=========================
-- In srun, reset stdin to blocking mode (if it was originally blocking before
we set it to O_NONBLOCK) on exit to avoid trouble with things like running
srun under a bash shell in an emacs *shell* buffer.
-- Fix srun race condition that occasionally causes segfaults at shutdown
-- Fix obscure locking issues in log.c code.
-- Explicitly close IO related sockets. If an srun gets "stuck", possibly
because of unkillable tasks in its job step, it will not hold many TCP
sockets in the CLOSE_WAIT state.
-- Increase the SLURM protocol timeout from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
(In 1.2 there will be a slurm.conf parameter for this, rather than having
it hardcoded.)
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.14
=========================
-- Fix for bad xfree() call in auth/munge which can raise an assert().
-- Fix installed fork handlers for the conf mutex for slurmd and slurmstepd.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.13
=========================
-- Fix for AllowGroups option to work when the /etc/group file doesn't
contain all users in group by adding the uids of the names in /etc/passwd
that have a gid of that which we are looking for.
-- Fix bug in InactiveLimit support that can potentially purge active jobs.
NOTE: This is highly unlikely except on very large AIX clusters.
-- Fix bug for reiniting the config_lock around the control_file in
slurm_protocol_api.c logic has changed in 1.1 so no need to merge
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.12
=========================
-- Report node state of DRAIN rather than DOWN if DOWN with DRAIN flag set.
-- Initialize job->mail_type to 0 (NONE) for job submission.
-- Fix for stalled task stdout/stderr when buffered I/O is used, and
a single line exceeds 4096 bytes.
-- Memory leak fixes for maui plugin (hjcao@nudt.edu.cn)
-- Fix for spinning srun when the terminal to which srun is talking
goes away.
-- Don't set avail_node_bitmap for DRAINED nodes on slurmctld reconfig
(can schedule a job on drained node after reconfig).
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.11
=========================
-- Fix for slurmstepd hang when launching a task. (Needed to install
list library's atfork handlers).
-- Fix memory leak on AIX (and possibly other architectures) due to
missing pthread_attr_destroy() calls.
-- Fix rare task standard I/O setup bug. When the bug hit, stdin, stdout,
or stderr could be an invalid file descriptor.
-- General slurmstepd file descriptor cleanup.
-- Fix memory leak in job accounting logic (Andy Riebs, HP, memory_leak.patch).
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.10
=========================
-- Fix for job accounting logic submitted from Andy Riebs to handle issues
with suspending jobs and such. patch file named requeue.patch
-- Make select/cons_res interoperate with mpi/lam plugin for task counts.
-- Fix race condition where srun could seg-fault due to use of logging functions
within pthread after calling log_fini.
-- Code changes for clean build with gcc 2.96 (gcc_2_96.patch, Takao Hatazaki, HP).
-- Add CacheGroups configuration support in configurator.html (configurator.patch,
Takao Hatazaki, HP).
-- Fix bug preventing use of mpich-gm plugin (mpichgm.patch, Takao Hatazaki, HP).
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.9
========================
-- Fix job accounting logic to open new log file on slurmctld reconfig.
(Andy Riebs, slurm.hp.logfile.patch).
-- Fix bug which allows a user to run a batch script on a node not allocated
by the slurmctld.
-- Fix poe MP_HOSTFILE handling bug on AIX.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.8
========================
-- Fix to communication between slurmd and slurmstepd to allow for partial
reads and writes on their communication pipes.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.7
========================
-- Change in how AuthType=auth/dummy is handled for security testing.
-- Fix for bluegene systems to allow full system partitions to stay booted
when other jobs are submitted to the queue.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.6
========================
-- Prevent slurmstepd from crashing when srun attaches to batch job.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.5
========================
-- Restructure logic for scheduling BlueGene small block jobs. Added
"test_only" flag to select_p_job_test() in select plugin.
-- Correct squeue "NODELIST" output for BlueGene small block jobs.
-- Fix possible deadlock situations on BlueGene plugin on errors.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.4
========================
-- Release job allocation if step creation fails (especially for BlueGene).
-- Fix bug select/bluegene warm start with changed bglblock layout.
-- Fix bug for queuing full-system BlueGene jobs.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.3
========================
-- Fix bug that could refuse to queue batch jobs for BlueGene system.
-- Add BlueGene plugin mutex lock for reconfig.
-- Ignore BlueGene bgljobs in ERROR state (don't try to kill).
-- Fix job accounting for batch jobs (Andy Riebs, HP,
slurm.hp.jobacct_divby0a.patch).
-- Added proctrack/linuxproc.so to the main RPM.
-- Added mutex around bridge api file to avoid locking up the api.
-- BlueGene mod: Terminate slurm_prolog and slurm_epilog immediately if
SLURM_JOBID environment variable is invalid.
-- Federation driver: allow selection of a sepecific switch interface
(sni0, sni1, etc.) with -euidevice/MP_EUIDEVICE.
-- Return an error for "scontrol reconfig" if there is already one in
progress
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.2
========================
-- Correctly report DRAINED node state as type OTHER for "sinfo --summarize".
-- Fixes in sacct use of malloc (Andy Riebs, HP, sacct_malloc.patch).
-- Smap mods: eliminate screen flicker, fix window resize, report more clear
message if window too small (Dan Palermo, HP, patch.1.0.0.1.060126.smap).
-- Sacct mods for inconsistent records (race condition) and replace --debug
option with --verbose (Andy Riebs, HP, slurm.hp.sacct_exp_vvv.patch).
-- scancel of a job step will now send a job-step-completed message
to the controller after verifying that the step has completed on all nodes.
-- Fix task layout bug in srun.
-- Added times to node "Reason" field when set down for insufficient
resources or if not responding.
-- Validate operation with Elan switch and heterogeneous nodes.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.1
========================
-- Assorted updates and clarifications in documentation.
-- Detect which munge installation to use 32/64 bit.
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.0
========================
-- Fix sinfo filtering bug, especially "sinfo -R" output.
-- Fix node state change bug, resuming down or drained nodes.
-- Fix "scontrol show config" to display JobCredentialPrivateKey instead
of JobCredPrivateKey and JobCredentialPublicCertificate instead of
JobCredPublicKey. They now match the options in the slurm.conf.
-- Fix bug in job accounting for very long node list records (Andy Riebs,
HP, sacct_buf.patch).
-- BLUEGENE SPECIFIC - added load function to smap to load an already
exsistant bluegene.conf file.
-- Fix bug in sacct: If user requests specific job or job step ID,
only the last one with that ID will be reported. If multiple
nodes fail, the job has its state recorded as "JOB_TERMINATED...nf"
(Andy Riebs, HP, slurm.hp.sacct_dup.patch).
-- Fix some inconsistencies in sacct's help message (Andy Riebs, HP,
slurm.hp.sacct_help.patch).
-- Validate input to sacct command and allows embedded spaces in
arguments (Andy Riebs, HP, slurm.hp.sacct_validate.patch).
* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre8
=============================
-- BGL specific -- bug fix for smap configure function down configuration
-- Add support for job suspend/resume.
-- Add slurmd cache for group IDs (Takao Hatazaki, HP).
-- Fix bug in processing of "#SLURM" batch script option parsing.
* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre7
=============================
-- Fix issue with NODE_STATE_COMPLETING, could start job on node before
epilog completed.
-- Added some infrastructure for job suspend/resume (scontrol, api, and
slurmctld stub).
-- Set job's num_procs to the actual processor count allocated to the job.
-- Fix bug in HAVE_FRONT_END support for cluster emulation.
* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre6
=============================
-- Added support for task affinity for binding tasks to CPUs (Daniel
Palermo, HP).
-- Integrate task affinity support with configuration, add validation
test.
* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre5
=============================
-- Enhanced performance and debugging for slurmctld reconfiguration.
-- Add "scontrol update Jobid=# Nice=#" support.
-- Basic slurmctld and tool functionality validated to 16k nodes.
-- squeue and smap now display correct info for jobs in bluegene enviornment.
-- Fix setting of SLURM_NODELIST for batch jobs.
-- Add SubmitTime to job information available for display.
-- API function slurm_confirm_allocation() has been marked OBSOLETE
and will go away in some future version of SLURM. Use
slurm_allocation_lookup() instead.
-- New API calls slurm_signal_job and slurm_signal_job_step to send
signals directly to the slurmds without triggering the shutdown sequence.
-- remove "uid" from old_job_alloc_msg_t, no longer needed.
-- Several bug fixes in maui scheduler plugin from Dave Jackon
(Cluster Resources).
* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre4
=============================
-- Remove BNR libary functions and add those for PMI (KVS and basic
MPI-1 functions only for now)
-- Added Hostfile support for POE and srun. MP_HOSTFILE env var to set
location of hostfile. Tasks will run from list order in the file.
-- Removes the slurmd's use of SysV shared memory. Instead the slurmd
communicates with the slurmstepd processes through the slurmstepd's
new named unix domain socket. The "stepd_api" is used to talk to the
slurmstepd (src/slurmd/common/stepd_api.[ch]).
-- Bluegene specific - bluegene block allocator will find most any
partition size now. Added support to start at any point in smap
to request a partition instead of always starting at 000.
-- Bluegene specific - Support to smap to down or bring up nodes in
configure mode. Added commands include allup, alldown,
up [range], down [range]
-- Time format in sinfo/squeue/smap/sacct changed from D:HH:MM:SS to
D-HH:MM:SS per POSIX standards document.
-- Treat scontrol update request without any requested changes as an
error condition.
-- Bluegene plugin renamed with BG instead of BGL. partition_allocator moved
into bluegene plugin and renamed block_allocator. Format for bluegene.conf
file changed also. Read bluegene html page. Code is backwards compatable
smap will generate in new form
-- Add srun option --nice to give user some control over job priority.
* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre3
=============================
-- Restructure node states: DRAINING and DRAINED states are replaced
with a DRAIN flag. COMPLETING state is changed to a COMPLETING flag.
-- Test suite moved into testsuite/expect from separate repository.
-- Added new document describing slurm APIs (doc/html/api.html).
-- Permit nodes to be in multiple partitions simultaneously.
* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre2
=============================
-- New stdio protocol. Now srun has just a single TCP stream to each node
of a job-step. srun and slurmd comminicate over the TCP stream using a
simple messaging protocol.
-- Added task plugin and use task prolog/epilog(s).
-- New slurmd_step functionality added. Fork exec instead of using shared
memory. Not completely tested.
-- BGL small partition logic in place in plugin and smap. Scheduler needs
to be rewritten to handle multiple partitions on a single node. No
documentation written on process yet.
-- If running select/bluegene plugin without access to BGL DB2, then
full-system bglblock is of system size defined in bluegene.conf.
* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre1
=============================
-- Support defered initiation of job (e.g. srun --begin=11:30 ...).
-- Add support for srun --cpus-per-task through task allocation in
slurmctld.
-- fixed partition_allocator to work without curses
-- made change to srun to start message thread before other threads
to make sure localtime doesn't interfere.
-- Added new RPCs for slurmctld REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB or TASKS,
REQUEST_KILL_JOB/TASKS changed to REQUEST_SIGNAL_JOB/TASKS.
-- Add support for e-mail notification on job state changes.
-- Some infrastructure added for task launch controls (slurm.conf:
TaskProlog, TaskEpilog, TaskPlugin; srun --task-prolog, --task-epilog).
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.11
=========================
-- Fix bug in sinfo partition sorting order.
-- Fix bugs in srun use of #SLURM options in batch script.
-- Use full Elan credential space rather than re-using credentials as soon
as job step completes (helps with fault-tolerance).
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.10
=========================
-- Fix for slurmd job termination logic (could hang in COMPLETING state).
-- Sacct bug fixes: Report correct user name for job step, show "uid.gid"
as fifth field of job step record (Andy Riebs, slurm.hp.sacct_uid.patch).
-- Add job_id to maui scheduler plugin start job status message.
-- Fix for srun's handling of null characters in stdout or stderr.
-- Update job accounting for larger systems (Andy Riebs, uptodate.patch).
-- Fixes for proctrack/linuxproc and mpich-gm support (Takao Hatazaki, HP).
-- Fix bug in switch/elan for large task count job having irregular task
distribution across nodes.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.9
========================
-- Fix bug in mpi plugin to set the ID correctly
-- Accounting bug causing segv fixed (Andy Riebs, 14oct.jobacct.patch)
-- Fix for failed launch of a debugged job (e.g. bad executable name).
-- Wiki plugin fix for tracking allocated nodes (Ernest Artiaga, BSC).
-- Fix memory leaks in slurmctld and federation plugin.
-- Fix sefault in federation plugin function fed_libstate_clear().
-- Align job accounting data (Andy Riebs, slurm.hp.unal_jobacct.patch)
-- Restore switch state in backup controller restarts
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.8
========================
-- Invalid AllowGroup value in slurm.conf to not cause seg fault.
-- Fix bug that would cause slurmctld to seg-fault with select/cons_res
and batch job containing more than one step.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.7
========================
-- Make proctrack/linuxproc thread safe, could cause slurmd seg fault.
-- Propagate umask from srun to spawned tasks.
-- Fix problem in switch/elan error handling that could hang a slurmd
step manager process.
-- Build on AIX with -bmaxdata:0x70000000 for memory limit more than 256MB.
-- Restore srun's return code support.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.6
========================
-- Fix for bad socket close() in the spawn-io code.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.5
========================
-- Sacct to report on job steps that never actually started.
-- Added proctrack/rms to elan rpm.
-- Restructure slurmctld/agent.c logic to insure timely reaping of
terminating pthreads.
-- Srun not to hang if job fails before task launches not all completed.
-- Fix for consumable resources properly scheduling nodes that have more
nodes than configured (Susanne Balle, HP, cons_res_patch.10.14.2005)
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.4
========================
-- Bluegene plugin drains an entire bglblock on repeated boot failures
only if it has not identified a specific node as being bad.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.3
========================
-- Fix slurmctld mem leaks (step name and hostlist struct).
-- Bluegene plugin sets end time for job terminated due to removed
bglblock.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.2
========================
-- Fix sinfo and squeue formatting to properly handle slurm nodes,
jobs, and other names containing "%".
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.1
========================
-- Fixed smap -Db to display slurm partitions correctly (take 2).
-- Add srun fork() retry logic for very heavily loaded system.
-- Fix possible srun hang on task launch failure.
-- Add support for mvapich v0.9.4, 0.9.5 and gen2.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0
========================
-- Add documentation for ProctrackType=proctrack/rms.
-- Make proctrack/rms be the default for switch/elan.
-- Do not preceed SIGKILL or SIGTERM to job step with (non-requested) SIGCONT.
-- Fixed smap -Db to display slurm partitions correctly.
-- Explicitly disallow ProctrackType=proctrack/linuxproc with
SwitchType=switch/elan. They will not work properly together.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre8
=============================
-- Remove debugging xassert in switch/federation that were accidentally
committed
-- Make slurmd step manager retry slurm_container_destroy() indefinitely
instead of giving up after 30 seconds. If something prevents a job
step's processes from being killed, the job will be stuck in the
completing until the container destroy succeeds.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre7
=============================
-- Disable localtime_r() calls from forked processes (semaphore set
in another pthread can deadlock calls to localtime_r made from
the forked process, this will be properly fixed in the next
major release of SLURM).
-- Added SLURM_LOCALID environment variable for spawned tasks
(Dan Palermo, HP).
-- Modify switch logic to restore state based exclusively upon
recovered job steps (not state save file).
-- Gracefully refuse job if there are too many job steps in slurmd.
-- Fix race condition in job completion that can leave nodes in
COMPLETING state after job is COMPLETED.
-- Added frees for BGL BrigeAPI strdups that were to this point unknown.
-- smap scrolls correctly for BGL systems.
-- slurm_pid2jobid() API call will now return the jobid for a step
manager slurmd process.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre6
=============================
-- Added logic to return scheduled nodes to Maui scheduler (David
Jackson, Cluster Resources)
-- Fix bug in handling job request with maximum node count.
-- Fix node selection scheduling bug with heterogeneous nodes and
srun --cpus-per-task option
-- Generate error file to note prolog failures.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre5
=============================
-- Modify sfree (BGL command) so that --all option no longer requires
an argument.
-- Modify smap so it shows all nodes and partitions by default (even
nodes that the user can't access, otherwise there are holes in
its maps).
-- Added module to parse time string (src/common/parse_time.c) for
future use.
-- Fix BlueGene hostlist processing for non-rectangular prisms and
add string length checking.
-- Modify orphan batch job time calculation for BGL to account for
slowness when booting many bglblocks at the same time.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre4
=============================
-- Added etc/slurm.epilog.clean to kill processes initiated outside of
slurm when a user's last job on a node terminates.
-- Added config.xml and configurator.html files for use by OSCAR.
-- Increased maximum job step count from 64 to 130 for BGL systems only.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre3
=============================
-- Add code so job request for shared nodes gets explicitly requested
nodes, but lightly loaded nodes otherwise.
-- Add job step name field.
-- Add job step network specification field.
-- Add proctrack/rms plugin
-- Change the proctrack API to send a slurmd_job_t pointer to both
slurm_container_create() and slurm_container_add(). One of those
functions MUST set job->cont_id.
-- Remove vestigial node_use (virtual or coprocessor) field from job
request RPC.
-- Fix mpich-gm bugs, thanks to Takao Hatazaki (HP).
-- Fix code for clean build with gcc 2.96, Takao Hatazaki (HP).
-- Add node update state of "RESUME" to return DRAINED, DRAINING, or
DOWN node to service (IDLE or ALLOCATED state).
-- smap keeps trying to connect to slurmctld in iterative mode rather
than just aborting on failure.
-- Add squeue option --node to filter by node name.
-- Modify squeue --user option to accept not only user names, but also
user IDs.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre2
=============================
-- Removed "make rpm" target.
* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre1
=============================
-- Added bgl/partition_allocator/smap changes from 0.5.7.
-- Added configurable resource limit propagation (Daniel Christians, HP).
-- Added mpi plugin specify at start of srun.
-- Changed SlurmUser ID from 16-bit to 32-bit.
-- Added MpiDefault slurm.conf parameter.
-- Remove KillTree configuration parameter (replace with
"ProctrackType=proctrack/linuxproc")
-- Remove MpichGmDirectSupport configuration parameter (replace with
"MpiDefault=mpich-gm")
-- Make default plugin be "none" for mpi.
-- Added mpi/none plugin and made it the default.
-- Replace extern program_invocation_short_name with program_invocation_name
due to short name being truncated to 16 bytes on some systems.
-- Added support for Elan clusters with different CPU counts on nodes
(Chris Holmes, HP).
-- Added Consumable Resources web page (Susanne Balle, HP).
-- "Session manager" slurmd process has been eliminated.
-- switch/federation fixes migrated from 0.5.*
-- srun pthreads really set detached, fixes scaling problem
-- srun spawns message handler process so it can now be stopped (via
Ctrl-Z or TotalView) without inducing failures.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.7
========================
-- added infrastructure for (eventual) support of AIX checkpointing
of slurm batch and interactive poe jobs
-- added wiring for BGL to do wiring for physical location first and then
logical.
-- only one thread used to query database before polling thread is there.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.6
========================
-- fix for BGL hostnames and full system partition finding
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.5
========================
-- Increase SLURM_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT_MSEC_STATIC to 15000
-- Fix for premature timeout in _slurm_send_timeout
-- Fix for federation overlapping calls to non-thread-safe _get_adapters
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.4
========================
-- Added support for no reboot for VN to CO on BGL
-- Fix for if a job starts after it finishes on BGL
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.3
========================
-- federation patch so the slurm controller has sane window status at
start-up regardless of the window status reported in the slurmd
registration.
-- federation driver exits with fatal() if the federation driver can not
find all of the adapters listed in the federation.conf
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.2
========================
-- Extra federation driver sanity checks
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.1
========================
-- Fix federation driver bad free(), other minor fed fixes
-- Allow slurm to parse very long lines in the slurm.conf
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0
========================
-- Fix race condition in job accouting plugin, could hang slurmd
-- Report SlurmUser id over 16 bits as an error (fix on v0.6)
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre19
==============================
-- Fix memory management bug in federation driver
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre18
==============================
-- elan switch plugin memory leak plugged
-- added g_slurmctld_jobacct_fini() to release all memory (useful
to confirm no memory leaks)
-- Fix slurmd bug introduced in pre17
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre17
==============================
-- slurmd calls the proctrack destroy function at job step completion
-- federation driver tries harder to clean up switch windows
-- BGL wiring changes
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre16
==============================
-- Check slurm.conf values for under/overflows (some are 16 bit values).
-- Federation driver clears windows at job step completion
-- Modify code for clean build with gcc v4.0
-- New SLURM_NETWORK environmant variable used by slurm_ll_api
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre15
==============================
-- Added "network" field to "scontrol show job" output.
-- Federation fix for unfreed windows when multiple adapters on
one node use the same LID
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre14
==============================
-- RDMA works on fed plugin.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre13
==============================
-- Major mods to support checkpoint on AIX.
-- Job accounting documenation expanded, added tuning options, minor bug fixes
-- BGL wiring will now work on <= 4 node X-dim partitions and also 8 node
X-dim partitions.
-- ENV variables set for spawning jobs.
-- jobacct patch from HP to not erroneously lock a mutex in the
jobacct_log plugin.
-- switch/federation supports multiple adapters per task. sn_all behaviour
is now correct, and it also supports sn_single.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre12
==============================
-- Minor build changes to support RPM creation on AIX
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre11
==============================
-- Slurmd tests for initialized session manager (user's) slurmd pid before
killing it to avoid killing system daemon (race condition).
-- srun --output or --error file names of "none" mapped to /dev/null for
batch jobs rather than a file actually named "none".
-- BGL: don't try to read bglblock state until they are all created to
avoid having BGL Bridge API seg fault.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre10
==============================
-- Fix bug that was resetting BGL job geometry on unrelated field update.
-- squeue and sinfo print timestamp in interate mode by default.
-- added scrolling windows in smap
-- introduced new variable to start polling thread in the bluegene plugin.
-- Latest accounting patches from Riebs/HP, retry communications.
-- Added srun option --kill-on-bad-exit from Holmes/HP.
-- Support large (64-bit address) log files where possible.
-- Fix problem of signals being delivered twice to tasks. Note that as
part of the fix the slurmd session manger no longer calls setsid to
create a new session.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre9
=============================
-- If a job and node are in COMPLETING state and slurmd stops responding for
SlurmdTimeout, then set the node DOWN and the job COMPLETED.
-- Add logic to switch/elan to track contexts allocated to active job steps
rather than just using a cyclic counter and hoping to avoid collisions.
-- Plug memory leak in freeing job info retrieved using API.
-- Bluegene Plugin handles long deallocating states from driver 202.
-- Fix bug in bitfmt2int() which can go off allocated memory.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre8
=============================
-- BlueGene srun --geometry was not getting propogated properly.
-- Fix race condition with multiple simultaneous epilogs.
-- Modify slurmd to resend job completion RPC to slurmctld in the
case where slurmctld is not responding.
-- Updated sacct: handle cancelled jobs correctly, add user/group
output, add ntasks ans synonym for nprocs, display error field
by default, display ncpus instead of nprocs
-- Parallelization of queing jobs up to 32 at once. Variable
MAX_AGENT_COUNT used in bgl_job_run.c to specify.
-- bgl_job_run.c fixed threading issue with uid_to_string use.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre7
=============================
-- Preserve next_job_id across restarts.
-- Add support for really long job names (256 bytes).
-- Add configuration parameter SchedulerRootFilter to control what
entity manages prioritization of jobs in RootOnly partition
(internal scheduler plugin or external entity).
-- Added support for job accounting.
-- Added support for consumable resource based node scheduling.
-- Permit batch job to be launched to re-existing allocation.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre6
=============================
-- Load bluegene.conf and federation.conf based upon SLURM_CONF env
var (if set).
-- Fix slurmd shutdown signal synchronization bug (not consistently
terminating).
-- Add doc/html/ibm.html document. Update bluegene.html.
-- Add sfree to bluegene plugin.
-- Remove geometry[SYSTEM_DIMENSIONS] from opaque node_select data
type if SYSTEM_DIMENSIONS==0 (not ASCI-C compliant).
-- Modify smap to test for valid libdb2.so before issuing any BGL
Bridge API calls.
-- Modify spec file for optional inclusion of select_bluegene and
sched_wiki plugin libraries.
-- Initialize job->network in data structure, could cause job
submit/update to fail depending upon what is left on stack.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre5
=============================
-- Expand buffer to hold node_select info in job termination log.
-- Modify slurmctld node hashing function to reduce collisions.
-- Treat bglblock vanishing as fatal error for job, prolog and epilog
exit immediately.
-- bug fix for following multiple X-dim partitions
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre4
=============================
-- Fix bug in slurmd that could double KillWait time on job timeout.
-- Fix bug in srun's error code reporting to slurmctld, could DOWN
a node if job run as root has non-zero error code.
-- Remove a node's partition info when removed from existing partition.
-- Use proctrack plugin to call all processes in a job step before
calling interconnect_postfini() to insure no processes escape from
job and prevent switch windows from being released.
-- Added mail.html web page telling how to get on slurm mailing lists.
-- Added another directory to search for DB2 files on BGL system.
-- Added overview man page slurm.1.
-- Added new configure option "--with-db2-dir=PATH" for BGL.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre3
=============================
-- Merge of SLURM v0.4-branch into v0.5/HEAD.
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre2
=============================
-- Fix bug in srun to clean-up upon failure of an allocated node
(srun -A would generate a segmentation fault, Chris Holmes, HP).
-- If slurmd's node name is mapped to NULL (due to bad configuration)
terminate slurmd with a fatal error and don't crash slurmctld.
-- Add SLURMD_DEBUG env var for use with AIX/POE in spawn_task RPC.
-- Always pack job's "features" for access by prolog/epilog
* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre1
=============================
-- Add network option to srun and job creation API for specification
of communication protocol over IBM Federation switch.
-- Add new slurm.conf parameter ProctrackType (process tracking) and
associated plugin in the slurmd module.
-- Send node's switch state with job epilog completion RPC and
node registration (only when slurmd starts, not on periodic
registrtions).
-- Add federation switch plugin.
-- Add new configuration keyword, SchedulerRootFilter, to control
external scheduler control of RoolOnly partition (Chris Holmes, HP).
-- Modify logic to set process group ID for spawned processes (last
patch from slurm v0.3.11).
-- "srun -A" modified to return exit code of last command executed
(Chris Holmes, HP).
-- Add support for different slurm.conf files controlled via SLURM_CONF
env var (Brian O'Sullivan, pathscale)
-- Fix bug if srun given --uid without --gid option (Chris Holmes, HP).
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.24
=========================
-- DRAIN nodes with switches on base partitions are in ERROR, MISSING,
or DOWN states.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.23
=========================
-- Modified bluegene plugin to only sync bglblocks to jobs on initial
startup, not on reconfig. Fixes race condition.
-- Modified bluegene plugin to work with 141 driver. Enabling it to
only have to reboot when switching from coproc -> virtual and back.
-- added support for a full system partition to make sure every other
partition is free and vice-verse.
-- smap resizing issue fixed.
-- change prolog not to add time when a partition is in deallocating
state.
-- NOTE: This version of SLURM requires BGL driver 141/2005.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.22
=========================
-- Modified bluegene plugin to not do anything if the bluegene.conf file
is altered.
-- added checking for lists before trying to create iterator on the list.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.21
=========================
-- Fix in race condition with time in Status Thread of BGL
-- Fix no leading zeros in smap output.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.20
=========================
-- Smap output is more user friendly with -c option
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.19
=========================
-- Added new RPCs for getting bglblock state info remotely and cache data
within the plugin (permits removal of DB2 access from BGL FEN and
dramatically increases smap responsivenss, also changed prolog/epilog
operation)
-- Move smap executable to main slurm RPM (from separate RPM).
-- smap uses RPC instead of DB2 to get info about bgl partitions.
-- Status function added to bluegene_agent thread. Keeps current state
of BGL partitions updating every second. will handle multiple attempts
at booting if booting a partition fails.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.18
=========================
-- Added error checking of rm_remove_partition calls.
-- job_term() was terminating a job in real time rather than
queueing the request. This would result in slurmctld hanging
for many seconds when a job termination was required.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.17
========================
-- Bug fixes from testing .16.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.16
========================
-- Added error checking to a bunch of Bridge API calls and more
gracefully handle failure modes.
-- Made smap more robust for more jobs.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.15
========================
-- Added error checking to a bunch of Bridge API calls and more
gracefully handle failure modes.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.14
========================
-- job state is kept on warm start of slurm
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.13
========================
-- epilog fix for bgl plugin
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.12
========================
-- bug shot for new api calls.
-- added BridgeAPILogFile as an option for bluegene.conf file
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.11
========================
-- changed as many rm_get_partition() to rm_get_partitions_info as we could
for time saving.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.10
========================
-- redesign for BGL external wiring.
-- smap display bug fix for smaller systems.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.9
========================
-- setpnum works now, have to include this in bluegene.conf
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.8
========================
-- Changed the prolog and the epilog to use the env var MPIRUN_PARTITION
instead of BGL_PARTITION_ID
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.7
========================
-- Remove some BGL specific headers that IBM now distributes, NOTE
BGL driver 080 or greater required.
-- Change autogen.sh to deal with problems running autoconf on one
system and configure on another with different software versions.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.6
========================
-- smap now works on non-BGL systems.
-- took tv.h out of partition_allocator so it would work withn driver 080
from IBM.
-- updated slurmd signal handling to prevent possible user killing of daemon.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.5
========================
-- Change sinfo default time limit field to have 10 bytes (up from 9).
-- Fix bug in bluegene partition selection (sorting bug).
-- Don't display any completed jobs in smap.
-- Add NodeCnt to filetxt job completion plugin.
-- Minor restructuring of how MMCS is polled for DOWN nodes and switches.
-- Fix squeue output format for "%s" (node select data).
-- Queue job requesting more resources than exist in a partition if
that partition's state is DOWN (rather than just abort it).
-- Add prolog/epilog for bluegene to code base (moved from mpirun in CVS)
-- Add prolog, epilog and bluegene.conf.example to bluegene RPM
-- In smap, Admin can get the Rack/midplane id from an XYZ input and vice versa.
-- Add smap line-oriented output capability.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.4
========================
-- Fix race condition in slurmd seting pgid of spawned tasks for
process tracking.
-- Fix scontrol reconfig does nothing to running jobs nor crash the system
-- Fix sort of bgl_list only happens once in select_bluegene.c instead of every
time a new job is inserted.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.3
========================
-- Turn off some RPM build checks (bug in RPM, see slurm.spec.in)
-- starting slurmctrld will destroy all RMP*** partitions everytime.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.2
========================
-- Fix memory leak in BlueGene plugin.
-- Srun's --test-only option takes precedence over --batch option.
-- Add sleep(1) after setting bglblock owner due to apparent race condition
in the BGL API.
-- Slurm was timing out and killing batch jobs if the node registered when
a job prolog was still running.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.1
========================
-- BlueGene plugin kills jobs running in defunct bglblock on restart.
-- Smap displays pending jobs now, in addition to running and completing jobs.
-- Remove node "use=" from bluegene.conf file, create both coprocessor and
virtual bglblocks for now (later create just one and use API to change
it when such an API is available).
-- Add "ChangeNumpsets" parameter to bluegene.conf to use script to
update the numpsets parameter for newly created bglblocks (to be
removed once the API functions).
-- Add all patches from slurm v0.3.11 (through 2/7/2005)
- Added srun option --disable-status,-X to disable srun status feature
and instead forward SIGINT immediately to job upon receipt of Ctrl-C.
- Fix for bogus slurmd error message "Unable to put task N into pgrp..."
- Fix case where slurmd may erroneously detect shared memory entry
as "stale" and delete entry for unkillable or slow-to-exit job.
- (qsnet) Fix for running slurmd on node without and elan3 adapter.
- Fix for reported problem: slurm/538: user tasks block writing to stdio
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0
========================
-- Minor tweak to init.d/slurm for BlueGene systems.
-- Added smap RPM package (to install binary built on BlueGene
service node on front-end nodes).
-- Added wait between bglblock destroy and creation of new blocks
so that MMCS can complete the operation.
-- Fix bug in synchronizing bglblock owners on slurmctld restart.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre11
==============================
-- Add new srun option "--test-only" for testing slurm_job_will_run API.
-- Fix bugs in slurm_job_will_run() processing.
-- Change slurm_job_will_run() to not return a message, just an error code.
-- Sync partition owners with running jobs on slurmctld restart.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre10
==============================
-- Specify number of I/O nodes associated with BlueGene partition.
-- Do not launch a job's tasks if the job is cancelled while its
prolog is running (which can be slow on BlueGene).
-- Add new error code, ESLURM_BATCH_ONLY for attepts to launch
job steps on front-end system (e.g. Blue Gene).
-- Updates to html documents.
-- Assorted fixes in smap, partition creation mode.
-- Add proper support for "srun -n" option on BGL recognizing
processor count in both virual and coprocessor modes.
-- Make default node_use on Blue Gene be coprocessor, as documented.
-- Add SIGKILL to BlueGene jobs as part of cleanup.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre9
=============================
-- Change in /etc/init.d/slurm for RedHat and Suze compatability
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre8
=============================
-- Add logic to create and destroy Bluegene Blocks automatically as needed.
-- Update smap man page to include Bluegene configuration commands.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre7
=============================
-- Port all patches from slurm v0.3 up through v0.3.10:
- Remove calls in auth/munge plugin deprecated by munge-0.4.
- Allow single task id to be selected with --input, --output, and --error.
- Create shared memory segment for Elan statistics when using the
switch/elan plugin.
- More fixes necessary for TotalView.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre6
=============================
-- Add new job reason value "JobHeld" for jobs with priority==0
-- Move startup script from "/etc/rc.d/init.d/slurm" to "/etc/init.d/slurm"
-- Modify prolog/epilog logic in slurmd to accomodate very long run times,
on BGL these scripts wait for events that can take a very long time
(tens of seconds).
-- This code base was used for BGLb acceptance test with pre-defined
BGL blocks.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre5
=============================
-- select/bluegene plugin confirms db.properties file in $sysconfdir
and copies it to StateSaveLocation (slurmctld's working directory)
-- select/bluegene plugin confirms environment variable required for
DB2 interaction are set (execute "db2profile" script before slurmctld)
-- slurmd to always give jobs KillWait time between SIGTERM and SIGKILL
at termination
-- set job's start_time and end_time = now rather than leaving zero if
they fail to execute
-- modify srun to forward SIGTERM
-- enable select/bluegene testing for DOWN nodes and switches
-- select/bluegene plugin to delete orphan jobs, free BGLblocks and
set owner as jobs terminate/start
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre4
=============================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/512: Let job steps run on DRAINING nodes
- slurm/513: Gracefully deal with UIDs missing from passwd file
-- Add support for MPICH-GM (from takao.hatazaki@hp.com)
-- Add support for NodeHostname in node configuration
-- Make "scontrol show daemons" function properly on front-end system
(e.g. Blue Gene)
-- Fix srun bug when --input, --output and --error are all "none"
-- Don't schedule jobs for user root if partition is DOWN
-- Modify select/bluegene to honor job's required node list
-- Modify user name logic to explicitly set UID=0 to "root",
Suse Linux was not handling multiple users with UID=0 well.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre3
=============================
-- Send SIGTERM to batch script before SIGKILL for mpirun cleanup on
Blue Gene/L
-- Create new allocation as needed for debugger in case old allocation
has been purged
-- Add Blue Gene User Guide to html documents
-- Fix srun bug that could cause seg fault with --no-shell option if not
running under a debugger
-- Propogate job's task count (if set) for batch job via SLURM_NPROCS.
-- Add new job parameters for Blue Gene: geometry, rotate, mode (virtual
or co-processor), communications type (mesh or torus), and partition ID.
-- Exercise a bunch of new switch plugin functions for Federation
switch support.
-- Fix bug in scheduling jobs when a processor count is specified
and FastSchedule=0 and the cluster is heterogeneous.
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre2
=============================
-- NOTE: "startclean" when transitioning from version 0.4.0-pre1, JOBS ARE LOST
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/477: Signal of batch job script (scancel -b) fixed
- slurm/481: Permit clearing of AllowGroups field for a partition
- slurm/482: Adjust Elan base context number to match RMS range
- slurm/489: Job completion logger was writing NULL to text file
-- Preserve job's requested processor count info after job is initiated
(for viewing by squeue and scontrol)
-- srun cancels created job if job step creation fails
-- Added a lots of Blue Gene/L support logic: slurmd executes on a single
node to front-end the 512-CPU base-partitions (Blue Gene/L's nodes)
-- Add node selection plugin infrastructure, relocate existing logic
to select/linear, add configuration parameter SelectType
-- Modify node hashing algorithm for better performance on Blue Gene/L
-- Add ability to specify node ranges for 3-D rectangular prism
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre1
=============================
-- NOTE: "startclean" when transitioning from version 0.3, JOBS ARE LOST
-- Added support for job account information (arbitrary string)
-- Added support for job dependencies (start job X after job Y completes)
-- Added support for configuration parameter CheckpointType
-- Added new job state "CANCELLED"
-- Don't strip binaries, breaks parallel debuggers
-- Fix bug in Munge authentication retry logic
-- Change srun handling of interupts to work properly with TotalView
-- Added "reason" field to job info showing why a job is waiting to run
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.7
========================
-- Fixes required for TotalView operability under RHEL3.0
(Reported by Dong Ahn <dahn@llnl.gov>)
- Do not create detached threads when running under parallel debugger.
- Handle EINTR from sigwait().
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.6
========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/459: Properly support partition's "Shared=force" configuration.
-- Resync node state to DRAINED or DRAINING on restart in case job
and node state recovered are out of sync.
-- Added jobcomp/script plugin (execute script on job completion,
from Nathan Huff, North Dakota State University).
-- Added new error code ESLURM_FRAGMENTED for immediate resource
allocation requests which are refused due to completing job (formerly
returned ESLURM_NOT_TOP_PRIORITY)
-- Modified job completion logging plugin calling sequence.
-- Added much of the infrastructure required for system checkpoint
(APIs, RPCs, and NULL plugin)
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.5
========================
-- Fix "SLURM_RLIMIT_* not found in environment" error message when
distributing large rlimit to jobs.
-- Add support for slurm_spawn() and associated APIs (needed for IBM
SP systems).
-- Fix bug in update of node state to DRAINING/DRAINED when update
request occurs prior to initial node registration.
-- Fix bug in purging of batch jobs (active batch jobs were being
improperly purged starting in version 0.3.0).
-- When updating a node state to DRAINING/DRAINED a Reason must be
provided. The user name and a timestamp will automatically be
appended to that Reason.
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.4
========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/404: Explicitly set pthread stack size to 1MB for srun
-- Allow srun to respond to ctrl-c and kill queued job while waiting
for allocation from controller.
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.3
========================
-- Fix slurmctld handling of heterogeneous processor count on elan
switch (was setting DRAINED nodes in state DRAINING).
-- Fix sinfo -R, --list-reasons to list all relevant node states.
-- Fix slurmctld to honor srun's node configuration specifications
with FastSchedule==0 configuration.
-- Added srun option --debugger-test to confirm that slurm's debugger
infrastructure is operational.
-- Removed debugging hacks for srun.wrapper.c. Temporarily use
RPM's debugedit utility if available for similar effect.
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.2
========================
-- The srun command wakes immeditely upon resource allocation (via new RPC)
rather than polling.
-- SLURM daemons log current version number at startup.
-- If slurmd can't respond to ping (e.g. paging is keeping it from
responding in a timely fashion) then send a registration RPC
to slurmctld.
-- Fix slurmd -M option to call mlockall() after daemonizing.
-- Add "slurm_" prefix to slurm's hostlist_ function man pages.
-- More AIX support added.
-- Change get info calls from using show_all to more general show_flags
with #define for SHOW_ALL flag.
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.1
========================
-- Set SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE env var for batch jobs (and LAM/MPI).
-- Fix for slurmd spinning when stdin buffers full (gnats:434)
-- Change some slurmctld malloc sizes to reduce demand for realloc calls,
improves performance and eliminates realloc failure on RH EL3 under
extremely heavy workload apparently due to memory fragmentation.
-- Fix scheduling logic for heterogeneous processor count.
-- Modify security_2_2 test to function with release 0.3
-- Fix broken rpm build when libslurm not already installed.
-- New slurmd option -M to mlock() slurmd process into memory.
-- New srun option --no-shell causes srun to exit instead of spawning
shell when using --allocate, -A.
-- Modify srun --uid=user and --gid=group options to maintain invoking
user's credentials until after nodes have been allocated to requested
user/group (allows root to run jobs and allocate nodes for other users
in a RootOnly partition).
-- Fix node processing if state change requested via scontrol prior to
initial node registration.
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0
========================
-- Support for AIX added (a few bugs do remain).
-- Fix memory leak in slurmctld, slurm_cred_create().
-- On ELF systems, export BNR_* functions from SLURM API.
-- Add support for "hidden" partitions (applies to their
nodes, jobs, and job steps as well). APIs and commands
modified to optionally display hidden partitions.
-- Modify partition's group_allow test to be based upon the user
of the allocation rather than the user making the allocation
request (user root for LCRM batch jobs).
-- Restructure plugin directory structure.
-- New --core=type option in srun for lightweight corefile support.
(requires liblwcf).
-- Let user root and SlurmUser exceed any partition limits.
-- Srun treats "--time=0" as a request for an infinite time limit.
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre10
================================
-- Fix bugs in support of slurmctld "-f" option (specify different
slurm.conf pathname).
-- Remove slurmd "-f" option.
-- Several documenation changes for slurm administrators.
-- On ELF systems, export only slurm_* functions from slurm API and
ensure plugins use only slurm_ prefixed functions (created aliases
where necessary).
-- New srun option -Q, --quiet to suppress informational messages.
-- Fix bug in slurmctld's building of nodelist for job (failed if
more than one numeric field in node name).
-- Change "scontrol completing" and "sinfo" to use job's node bitmap
to identify nodes associated with that particular job that are
still processing job completion. This will work properly for
shared nodes.
-- Set SLURM_DISTRIBUTION environment varible for user tasks.
-- Fix for file descriptor leak in slurmd.
-- Propagate stacksize limit to jobs along with other resource limits
that were previously ignored.
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre9
===============================
-- Restructure how slurmctld state saves are performed for better
scalability.
-- New sinfo option "--list-reason" or "-R". Displays down or drained
nodes along with their REASON field.
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre8
===============================
-- Queue outgoing message traffic rather than immediately spawning
pthreads (under heavy load this resulted in hundreds of pthreads
using more memory than was available).
-- Restructure slurmctld message agent for higher throughput.
-- Add new sinfo options --responding and --dead (i.e. non-responding)
for filtering node states.
-- Fix bug in sinfo to properly process specified state filter including
"*" suffix for non-responding nodes.
-- Create StateSaveLocation directory if changes via slurmctld reconfig
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre7
===============================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/381: Hold jobs requesting more resources than partition limit.
- slurm/387: Jobs lost and nodes DOWN on slurmctld restart.
-- Add support for getting node's real memory size on AIX.
-- Sinfo sort partitions in slurm.conf order, new sort option ("#P").
-- Document how to gracefully change plugin values.
-- Slurmctld does not attempt to recover jobs when the switch plugin
value changes (decision reached when any job's switch state recovery
fails).
-- Node does not transition from COMPLETING to DOWN state due to
not responding. Wait for tasks to complete or admin to set DOWN.
-- Always chmod SlurmdSpoolDir to 755 (a umask of 007 was resulting
in batch jobs failing).
-- Return errors when trying to change configuration parameters
AuthType, SchedulerType, and SwitchType via "scontrol reconfig"
or SIGHUP. Document how to safely change these parameters.
-- Plugin-specific error number definitions and descriptive strings
moved from common into plugin modules.
-- Documentation for writing scheduler, switch, and job completion
logging plugins added.
-- Added job and node state descriptions to the squeue and sinfo man pages.
-- Backup slurmctld to generate core file on SIGABRT.
-- Backup slurmctld to re-read slurm.conf on SIGHUP.
-- Added -q,--quit-on-interrupt option to srun.
-- Elan switch plugin now starts neterr resolver thread on all Elan3
systems (QsNet and QsNetII).
-- Added some missing read locks for references for slurmctld's
configuration data structure
-- Modify processing of queued slurmctld message traffic to get better
throughput (resulted in job inactivity limit being reached improperly
when hundreds of jobs running simultaneously)
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre6
===============================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/372: job state descriptions added to squeue man page
-- Switch plugin added. Add "SwitchType=switch/elan" to slurm.conf for
systems with Quadrics Elan3 or Elan4 switches.
-- Don't treat DOWN nodes with too few CPUs as a fatal error on Elan
-- Major re-write of html documents
-- Updates to node pinging for large numbers of unresponsive nodes
-- Explicitly set default action for SIGTERM (action on Thunder was
to ignore SIGTERM)
-- Sinfo "--exact" option only applies to fields actually displayed
-- Partition processor count not correctly computed for heterogeneous
clusters with FastSchedule=0 configuration
-- Only return DOWN nodes to service if the reason for them being in
that state is non-responsiveness and "ReturnToService=1" configuration
-- Partition processor count now correctly computed for heterogeneous
clusters with FastSchedule configured off
-- New macros and function to export SLURM version number
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre5
===============================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/346: Support multiple colon-separated PluginDir values
-- Fix node state transition: DOWN to DRAINED (instead of DRAINING)
-- Fix a couple of minor slurmctld memory leaks
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre4
===============================
-- Fix bug where early launch failures (such as invalid UID/GID) resulted
in jobs not terminating properly.
-- Initial support for BNR committed (not yet functional).
-- QsNet: SLURM now uses /etc/elanhosts exclusively for converting
hostnames to ElanIDs.
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre3
===============================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/328: Slurmd was restarting with a new shared memory segment and
losing track of jobs
- slurm/329: Job processing may be left running when one task dies
- slurm/333: Slurmd fails to launch a job and deletes a step, due to
a race condition in shared memory management
- slurm/334: Slurmd was getting a segv due to a race condition in shared
memory management
- slurm/342: Properly handle nodes being removed from configuration
even when there are partitions, nodes, or job steps still associated
with them
-- Srun properly terminates jobs/steps upon node failure (used to hang
waiting for I/O completion)
-- Job time limits enforced even if InactiveLimit configured as zero
-- Support the sending of an arbitrary signal to a batch script (but not
the processses in its job steps)
-- Re-read slurm configuration file whenever changed, needed by users
of SLURM APIs
-- Scancel was generating a assert failure
-- Slurmctld sends a launch response message upon scheduling of a queued
job (for immediate srun response)
-- Maui scheduler plugin added
-- Backfill scheduler plugin added
-- Batch scripts can now have arguments that are propogated
-- MPICH support added (via patch, not in SLURM CVS)
-- New SLURM environment variables added SLMR_CPUS_ON_NODE and
SLURM_LAUNCH_NODE_IPADDR, these provide support needed for LAM/MPI
(version 7.0.4+)
-- The TMPDIR directory is created as needed before job launch
-- Do not create duplicate SLURM environment variables with the same name
-- Insure proper enforcement of node sharing by job
-- Treat lack of SpoolDir or StateSaveDir as a fatal error
-- Quickstart.html guide expanded
-- Increase maximum jobs steps per node from 16 to 64
-- Delete correct shared memory segment on slurmd -c (clean start)
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre2
===============================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/326: Properly clean-up jobs terminating on non-responding nodes
-- Move all configuration data structure into common/read_config, scontrol
now always shows default values if not specified in slurm.conf file
-- Remove the unused "Prioritize" configuration parameter
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre1
===============================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/252: "jobs left orphaned when using TotalView:" SLURM controller
now pings srun and kills defunct jobs.
- slurm/253: "srun fails to accept new IO connection."
- slurm/317: "Lack of default partition in config file causes errors."
- slurm/319: Socket errors on multiple simultaneous job launches fixed
- slurm/321: slurmd shared memory synchronization error.
-- Removed slurm_tv_clean daemon which has been obsoleted by slurm/252 fix.
-- New scontrol command ``delete'' and RPC added to delete a partition
-- Squeue can now print and sort by group id/name
-- Scancel has new option -q,--quiet to not report an error if a job
is already complete
-- Add the excluded node list to job information reported.
-- RPC version mis-match now properly handled
-- New job completion plugin interface added for logging completed jobs.
-- Fixed lost digit in scontrol job priority specification.
-- Remove restriction in the number of consecutive node sets (no longer
needed after DPCS upgrade)
-- Incomplete state save write now properly handled.
-- Modified slurmd setrlimit error for greater clarity.
-- Slurmctld performs load-leveling across shared nodes.
-- New user function added slurm_get_end_time for user jobs.
-- Always compile srun with stabs debug section when TotalView support
is requested.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.21
=========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/253: Try using different port if connect() fails (was rarely
failing when an existing defunct connection was in TIME_WAIT state)
- slurm/300: Possibly killing wrong job on slurmd restart
- slurm/312: Freeing non-allocated memory and killing slurmd
-- Assorted changes to support RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and IA64
-- Initial Elan4 and libelanctrl support (--with-elan).
-- Slurmctld was sometimes inappropriately setting a job's priority
to 1 when a node was down (even if up nodes could be used for the
job when a running job completes)
-- Convert all user commands from use of popt library to getopt_long()
-- If TotalView support is requested, srun exports "totalview_jobid"
variable for `%J' expansion in TV bulk launch string.
-- Fix several locking bugs in slurmd IO layer.
-- Throttle back repetitious error messages in slurmd to avoid filling
log files.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.20
=========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/298: Elan initialization error (Invalid vp 2147483674).
- slurm/299: srun fails to exit with multiple ^C's.
-- Temporarily prevent DPCS from allocating jobs with more than eight
sets of consecutive nodes. This was likely causing user applications
to fail with libelan errors. This will be removed after DPCS is updated.
-- Fix bug in popt use, was failing in some versions of Linux.
-- Resend KILL_JOB messages as needed to clear COMPLETING jobs.
-- Install dummy SIGCHLD handler in slurmd to fix problem on NPTL systems
where slurmd was not notified of terminated tasks.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.19
=========================
-- Memory corruption bug fixed, it was causing slurmctld to seg-fault
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.18
=========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/287: slurm protocol timeouts when using TotalView.
- slurm/291: srun fails using ``-n 1'' under multi-node allocation.
- slurm/294: srun IO buffer reports ENOSPC.
-- Memory corruption bug fixed, it was causing slurmctld to seg-fault
-- Non-responding nodes now go from DRAINING to DRAINED state when
jobs complete
-- Do not schedule pending jobs while any job is actively COMPLETING
unless the submitted job specifically identifies its nodes (like DPCS)
-- Reset priority of jobs with priority==1 when a non-responding node
starts to respond again
-- Ignore jobs with priority==1 when establishing new baseline upon
slurmctld restart
-- Make slurmctld/message retry be timer based rather than queue based
for better scalability
-- Slurmctld logging is more concise, using hostlists more
-- srun --no-allocate used special job_id range to avoid conflicts
or premature job termination (purging by slurmctld)
-- New --jobid=id option in srun to initiate job step under an existing
allocation.
-- Support in srun for TotalView bulk launch.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.17
=========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/279: Hold jobs that can't execute due to DOWN or DRAINED
nodes and release when nodes are returned to service.
- slurm/285: "srun killed due to SIGPIPE"
-- Support for running job steps on nodes relative to current
allocation via srun -r, --relative=n option.
-- SIGKILL no longer broadcasted to job via srun on task failure unless
--no-allocate option is used.
-- Re-enabled "chkconfig --add" in default RPMs.
-- Backup controller setting proper PID into slurmctld.pid file.
-- Backup controller restores QSW state each time it assumes control
-- Backup controller purges old job records before assuming control
to avoid resurrecting defunct jobs.
-- Kill jobs on non-responding DRAINING nodes and make their state
DRAINED.
-- Save state upon completion of a job's last EPILOG_COMPLETION to
reduce possibility of inconsistent job and node records when the
controller is transitioning between primary and backup.
-- Change logging level of detailed communication errors to not print
them unless detailed debugging is requested.
-- Increase number of concurrent controller server threads from 20
to 50 and restructure code to handle backlogs more efficiently.
-- Partition state at controller startup is based upon slurm.conf
rather than previously saved state. Additional improvements to
avoid inconsistent job/node/partition states at restart. Job state
information is used to arbitrate conflicts.
-- Orphaned file descriptors eliminated.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.16
=========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/265: Early termination of srun could cause job to remain in queue.
- slurm/268: Slurmctld could deadlock if there was a delay in the
termination of a large node-count job. An EPILOG_COMPLETE RPC was
added so that slurmd could notify slurmctld whenever the job
termination was completed.
- slurm/270: Segfault in sinfo if a configured node lacked a partition.
- slurm/278: Exit code in scontrol did not indicate failure.
-- Fixed bug in slurmd that caused the daemon to occaisionally kill itself.
-- Fixed bug in srun when running with --no-allocate and >1 process per node.
-- Small fixes and updates for srun manual.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.15
=========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/265: Job was orphaned when allocation response message could
not be sent. Job is now killed on allocation response message transmit
failure and socket error details are logged.
- Fix for slurm/267: "Job epilog may run multiple times."
-- Squeue job TIMELIMIT format changed from "h:mm" to "d:h:mm:ss".
-- DPCS initiated jobs have steps execute properly without explicit
specification of node count.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.14
=========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- slurm/194: "srun doesn't handle most options when run under an allocation."
- slurm/244: "REQ: squeue shows requested size of pending jobs."
-- SLURM_NODELIST environment variable now exported to all jobs, not
only batch jobs.
-- Nodelist displayed in squeue for completing jobs is now restricted to
completing nodes.
-- Node "reason" field properly displayed in sinfo even with filtering.
-- ``slurm_tv_clean'' daemon now supports a log file.
-- Batch jobs are now re-queued on launch failure.
-- Controller confirms job scripts for batch jobs are still running on
node zero at node registration.
-- Default RPMs no longer stop/start SLURM daemons on upgrade or install.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.13
=========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- Fixed bug in slurmctld where "drained" nodes would go back into
the "idle" state under some conditions (slurm/228).
- Added possible fix for slurm/229: "slurmd occasionally fails
to reap all children."
-- Fixed memory leak in auth_munge plugin.
-- Added fix to slurmctld to allow arbitrarily large job specifications
to be saved and recovered in the state file.
-- Allow "updates" in the configuration file of previously defined
node state and reason.
-- On "forceful termination" of a running job step, srun now exits
unconditionally, instead of waiting for all I/O.
-- Slurmctld now uses pidfile to kill old daemon when a new one is started.
-- Addition of new daemon "slurm_tv_clean" used to clean up jobs orphaned
due to use of the TotalView parallel debugger.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.12
=========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- Fix for "waitpid: No child processes" when using TotalView (slurm/217).
- Implemented temporary workaround for slurm/223: "Munge decode failed:
Munged communication error."
- Temporary fix for slurm/222: "elan3_create(0): Invalid argument."
-- Fixed memory leaks in slurmctld (mostly due to reconfigure).
-- More squeue/sinfo interface changes (see squeue(1), sinfo(1)).
-- Sinfo now accepts list of node states to -t,--state option.
-- Node "reason" field now available via sinfo command (see sinfo(1)).
-- Wrapper source for srun (srun.wrapper.c) now installed and available
for TotalView support.
-- Improved retry login in user commands for periods when slurmctld
primary is down and backup has not yet taken over.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.11
=========================
-- Changes in srun:
- Fixed bug in signal handling that occaisonally resulted in orphaned
jobs when using Ctrl-C.
- Return non-zero exit code when remote tasks are killed by a signal.
- SIGALRM is now blocked by default.
-- Added ``reason'' string for down, drained, or draining nodes.
-- Added -V,--version option to squeue and sinfo.
-- Improved some error messages from user utilities.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.10
=========================
-- New slurm.conf configuration parameters:
- WaitTime: Default for srun -w,--wait parameter.
- MaxJobCount: Maximum number of jobs SLURM can handle at one time.
- MinJobAge: Minimum time since completing before job is purged from
slurmctld memory.
-- Block user defined signals USR1 and USR2 in slurmd session manager.
-- More squeue cleanup.
-- Support for passing options to sinfo via environment variables.
-- Added option to scontrol to find intersection of completing jobs and nodes.
-- Added fix in auth_munge to prevent "Munged communication error" message.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.9
========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- Argument to srun `-n' option was taken as octal if preceeded with a `0'.
-- New format for Elan hosts config file (/etc/elanhosts. See README)
-- Various fixes for managing COMPLETING jobs.
-- Support for passing options to squeue via environment variables
(see squeue(1))
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.8
=========================
-- Fix for bug in slurmd that could make debug messages appear in job output.
-- Fix for bug in slurmctld retry count computation.
-- Srun now times out slow launch threads.
-- "Time Used" output in squeue now includes seconds.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.7
=========================
-- Fix for bug in Elan module that results in slurmd hang.
-- Added completing job state to default list of states to print with squeue.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.6
=========================
-- More fixes for handling cleanup of slow terminating jobs.
-- Fixed bug in srun that might leave nodes allocated after a Ctrl-C.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.5
=========================
-- Various fixes for cleanup of slow terminating or unkillable jobs.
-- Fixed some small memory leaks in communications code.
-- Added hack for synchronized exit of jobs on large node count.
-- Long lists of nodes are no longer truncated in sinfo.
-- Print more descriptive error message when tasks exit with nonzero status.
-- Fixed bug in srun where unsuccessful launch attempts weren't detected.
-- Elan network error resolver thread now runs from elan module in slurmd.
-- Slurmctld uses consecutive Elan context and program description numbers
instead of choosing them randomly.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.4
==========================
-- Fix for file descriptor leak in slurmctld.
-- auth_munge plugin now prints credential info on decode failure.
-- Minor changes to scancel interface.
-- Filename format option "%J" now works again for srun --output and --error.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.3
==========================
-- Fix bug in srun when using per-task files for stderr.
-- Better error reporting on failure to open per-task input/output files.
-- Update auth_munge plugin for munge 0.1.
-- Minor changes to squeue interface.
-- New srun option `--hold' to submit job in "held" state.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.2
==========================
-- Fixes for reported problems:
- Execution of script allocate mode fails in some cases. (gnats:161)
- Errors using per-task input files with Elan support. (gnats:162)
- srun doesn't handle all environment variables properly. (gnats:164)
-- Parallel job is now terminated if a task is killed by a signal.
-- Exit status of srun is set based on exit codes of tasks.
-- Redesign of sinfo interface and options.
-- Shutdown of slurmctld no longer propagates shutdown to all nodes.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.1
===========================
-- Fix bug where reconfigure request to slurmctld killed the daemon.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.0
============================
-- SlurmdTimeout of 0 means never set a non-responding node to DOWN.
-- New srun option, -u,--unbuffered, for unbuffered stdout.
-- Enhancements for sinfo
- Non-responding nodes show "*" character appended instead of "NoResp+".
- Node states show abbreviated variant by default
-- Enhancements for scontrol.
- Added "ping" command to show current state of SLURM controllers.
- Job dump in scontrol shows user name as well as UID.
- Node state of DRAIN is appropriately mapped to DRAINING or DRAINED.
-- Fix for bug where request for task count greater than partition limit
was queued anyway.
-- Fix for bugs in job end time handling.
-- Modifications for error free builds on 64 bit architectures.
-- Job cancel immediately deallocates nodes instead of waiting on srun.
-- Attempt to create slurmd spool if it does not exist.
-- Fixed signal handling bug in srun allocate mode.
-- Earlier error detection in slurmd startup.
-- "fatal: _shm_unlock: Numerical result out of range" bug fixed in slurmd.
-- Config file parsing is now case insensitive.
-- SLURM_NODELIST environment variable now set in allocate mode.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.0-pre2
=============================
-- Fix for reconfigure when public/private key path is changed.
-- Shared memory fixes in slurmd.
- fix for infinite semaphore incrementation bug.
-- Semaphore fixes in slurmctld.
-- Slurmctld now remembers which nodes have registered after recover.
-- Fixed reattach bug when tasks have exited.
-- Change directory to /tmp in slurmd if daemonizing.
-- Logfiles are reopened on reconfigure.
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