gres.conf(5) Slurm configuration file gres.conf(5)
NAME
gres.conf - Slurm configuration file for generic resource management.
DESCRIPTION
gres.conf is an ASCII file which describes the configuration of generic resources on each compute node. Each node must contain a gres.conf
file if generic resources are to be scheduled by SLURM. The file location can be modified at system build time using the
DEFAULT_SLURM_CONF parameter or at execution time by setting the SLURM_CONF environment variable. The file will always be located in the
same directory as the slurm.conf file. If generic resource counts are set by the gres plugin function node_config_load(), this file may be
optional.
Parameter names are case insensitive. Any text following a "#" in the configuration file is treated as a comment through the end of that
line. The size of each line in the file is limited to 1024 characters. Changes to the configuration file take effect upon restart of
SLURM daemons, daemon receipt of the SIGHUP signal, or execution of the command "scontrol reconfigure" unless otherwise noted.
The overall configuration parameters available include:
Count Number of resources of this type available on this node. The default value is set to the number of File values specified (if any),
otherwise the default value is one. A suffix of "K", "M" or "G" may be used to mulitply the number by 1024, 1048576 or 1073741824
respectively.
CPUs Specify the CPU index numbers for the specific CPUs which can use this resource. For example, it may be strongly preferable to use
specific CPUs with specific devices (e.g. on a NUMA architecture). Multiple CPUs may be specified using a comma delimited list or a
range may be specified using a "-" separator (e.g. "0,1,2,3" or "0-3"). If not specified, then any CPU can be used with the
resources. If any CPU can be used with the resources, then do not specify the CPUs option for improved speed in the SLURM schedul-
ing logic.
File Fully qualified pathname of the device files associated with a resource. The name can include a numberic range suffix to be inter-
preted by SLURM (e.g. File=/dev/nvidia[0-3]). This field is generally required if enforcement of generic resource allocations is to
be supported (i.e. prevents a users from making use of resources allocated to a different user). If File is specified then Count
must be either set to the number of file names specified or not set (the default value is the number of files specified). NOTE: If
you specify the File parameter for a resource on some node, the option must be specified on all nodes and SLURM will track the
assignment of each specific resource on each node. Otherwise SLURM will only track a count of allocated resources rather than the
state of each individual device file.
Name Name of the generic resource. Any desired name may be used. Each generic resource has an optional plugin which can provide
resource-specific options. Generic resources that currently include an optional plugin are:
gpu Graphics Processing Unit
nic Network Interface Card
EXAMPLE
##################################################################
# SLURM's Generic Resource (GRES) configuration file
##################################################################
# Configure support for our four GPUs
Name=gpu File=/dev/nvidia0 CPUs=0,1
Name=gpu File=/dev/nvidia1 CPUs=0,1
Name=gpu File=/dev/nvidia2 CPUs=2,3
Name=gpu File=/dev/nvidia3 CPUs=2,3
Name=bandwidth Count=20M
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2010 The Regents of the University of California. Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER).
CODE-OCEC-09-009. All rights reserved.
This file is part of SLURM, a resource management program. For details, see <http://www.schedmd.com/slurmdocs/>.
SLURM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
SLURM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
SEE ALSO
slurm.conf(5)
gres.conf 2.3 September 2011 gres.conf(5)