Ticket 5869

Hey David,

I think I know what your problem is. If no account is specified for a slurm job, the default account will be used. Your default account must be `soton`, because that was probably the first account you were put under.  So you need to explicitly specify the `lyceum` account in addition to specifying the `lyceum` partition.

`sinteractive` seems to be a custom wrapper command that we didn’t make. However, I did find this: https://www.massive.org.au/userguide/running-slurm-jobs/running-interactive-jobs. This page indicates that you can simply specify the account like so:

    sinteractive -p lyceum --account=lyceum --gres=gpu:1

Give this a try and let me know how it goes!

-Michael

P.S. Note that the `Shared` parameter has been discontinued in favor of `OverSubscribe`.

To see the default account of users, simply do:

    sacctmgr show user

If you want, you can even change your default account to lyceum with the following command:

    sacctmgr modify user set defaultaccount=lyceum where name=djb1

See https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html (though it appears that some of the commands are a little inaccurate - replace `default` with `defaultaccount`).

Hello,


Thank you. In other words I should make the lyceum group my default group to access the lyceum partition. I did that this morning and found that I could submit jobs to the lyceum partition and the public partitions which what we are looking for.


Please feel free to consider this ticket closed.


Best regards,

David

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Subject: [Bug 5869] Access to a partition on a group or user basis


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To see the default account of users, simply do:

    sacctmgr show user

If you want, you can even change your default account to lyceum with the
following command:

    sacctmgr modify user set defaultaccount=lyceum where name=djb1

See https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslurm.schedmd.com%2Faccounting.html&data=01%7C01%7Cd.j.baker%40soton.ac.uk%7C23e3f32cf36e498dc96508d63477aabe%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=%2BkqjS3QM0H6ycMnfnKwXgzABWRGPle89JeVbIWKEDcM%3D&reserved=0> (though it appears that some of
the commands are a little inaccurate - replace `default` with
`defaultaccount`).

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(In reply to David Baker from comment #3)
> Thank you. In other words I should make the lyceum group my default group to
> access the lyceum partition.

To be clear, changing your user's default account to lyceum does NOT give you access to the partition. You were already given access when your user was added under the lyceum account. Rather, setting the default account to lyceum simply makes it so you don't have to specify `--account=lyceum` every time.

After changing defaultaccount=lyceum, the reason you didn't need to specify an account for the other public partitions is because they allow access from ALL accounts by default. Only the lyceum partition checks for the lyceum account (via `AllowAccounts=lyceum`). I hope that makes sense.

Closing out bug.

Cheers,
Michael