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Idea #9581

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[Crunch2] SLURM dispatcher supports arbitrary arguments to sbatch

Added by Brett Smith almost 8 years ago. Updated almost 8 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assigned To:
Radhika Chippada
Category:
Crunch
Target version:
Start date:
07/12/2016
Due date:
Story points:
1.0
Release:
Release relationship:
Auto

Description

Use case

Administrators want additional control over how Arvados containers are dispatched to SLURM. Some options they might commonly want to specify are --account, --clusters, or --partition. crunch-dispatch-slurm should provide a simple mechanism for administrators to set arbitrary additional arguments to sbatch.

Implementation

Add a command line flag, "-config path/to/config.json" (see source:services/keep-balance/main.go for an example). crunch-dispatch-slurm reads configuration entries from this JSON file. If no -config switch is given, it tries to read configuration from /etc/arvados/crunch-dispatch-slurm/config.json. If that file does not exist, crunch-dispatch-slurm continues running with default configuration. If there's any other error reading the file (permissions problem, invalid JSON), or if the user specified a config file that doesn't exist, that's a fatal error, and the program should abort with a useful error message.

Convert existing command line flags to config file entries.

type Config struct {
        SbatchArguments  []string
        PollPeriod       time.Duration
        CrunchRunCommand string
}

The configured SbatchArguments should be inserted into the command passed to exec.Command(), after the generic options sbatch --share and before the job-specific options --job-name, --mem-per-cpu, and --cpus-per-task. This is because the administrator's configuration should take precedence over default behavior switches, but not over job-specific switches which have more details about how the container should be run.

Tests

Just unit tests for sbatchFunc.
  • Handles nil SbatchArguments correctly
  • Handles non-nil SbatchArguments correctly

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Task #9640: Review branch 9581-slurm-dispatcher-configResolvedRadhika Chippada07/12/2016Actions
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