Step 11: Set up Slurm on nodes

Prerequisites

  • Provide the Slurm 25.05.2 user repository.

  • Fill the mandatory parameters in omnia_config.yml: Input parameters for the cluster

  • Fill the parameters in storage_config.yml: Input parameters for the cluster

  • Add slurm_custom to software_config.json and add slurm_custom subgroups.

  • Add slurm_custom repository URL to user_repo_url_x86_64 or user_repo_url_aarch64 in local_repo_config.yml.

Setup Slurm:

  1. To download the artifacts required to set up Slurm on the nodes, run the local_repo.yml playbook.

  2. To build diskless images for cluster nodes, run build_image_x86_64.yml or build_image_aarch64.yml: Build cluster node images

  3. To discover the potential cluster nodes, configure the boot script, and cloud-init based on the functional groups, run the discovery.yml playbook: Discover cluster nodes

  4. After successfully executing the discovery.yml playbook, you can PXE boot the slurm node, login node, and login compiler node simultaneously.

Note

If you want to deploy only Slurm clusters (slurm_custom), the idrac_telemetry_support parameter must be set to false in the telemetry_config.yml file. Omnia is Validated for Slurm version 25.05. If you use any other version, some functionality like PAM may not work.

Slurm with GPU:

Prerequisites

  • You must have the user_repo which is compiled with nvml and cgroup-v2. If slurm-nodes have GPU then you must provide at least one login_compiler_node.

Note

If the iDRAC of a Slurm node is not accessible through OIM—because of issues such as an incorrect iDRAC port configuration or invalid credentials—the node configuration specified in /etc/slurm/slurm.conf for NodeName will default to: Sockets=1 CoresPerSocket=1 ThreadsPerCore=1 RealMemory=3774873. Update slurm.conf with the correct hardware values and run scontrol reconfigure to apply the changes.

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