Since https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm-gcp/commit/c5095d0bc2f38054d678e9a32568883dec0132c5 instances of type a2-highgpu-8g (or similar) nodes cannot be created - the controller node fails with: 2023-08-07 12:04:08,247 INFO: Setting up controller 2023-08-07 12:04:08,249 INFO: installing custom scripts: compute.d/ghpc_startup.sh,controller.d/ghpc_startup.sh,partition.d/a2/ghpc_startup.sh,partition.d/dev/ghpc_startup.sh 2023-08-07 12:04:08,249 DEBUG: install_custom_scripts: compute.d/ghpc_startup.sh 2023-08-07 12:04:08,251 DEBUG: install_custom_scripts: controller.d/ghpc_startup.sh 2023-08-07 12:04:08,252 DEBUG: install_custom_scripts: partition.d/a2/ghpc_startup.sh 2023-08-07 12:04:08,254 DEBUG: install_custom_scripts: partition.d/dev/ghpc_startup.sh 2023-08-07 12:04:08,259 DEBUG: compute_service: Using version=v1 of Google Compute Engine API 2023-08-07 12:04:44,512 WARNING: core count in machine type a2-highgpu-8g is not an integer. Default to 1 socket. 2023-08-07 12:04:44,512 ERROR: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '8g' -- File "/slurm/scripts/setup.py", line 1071, in setup_controller gen_cloud_conf() File "/slurm/scripts/setup.py", line 341, in gen_cloud_conf content = make_cloud_conf(lkp, cloud_parameters=cloud_parameters) File "/slurm/scripts/setup.py", line 330, in make_cloud_conf lines = [ File "/slurm/scripts/setup.py", line 333, in <genexpr> *(partitionlines(p, lkp) for p in lkp.cfg.partitions.values()), File "/slurm/scripts/setup.py", line 272, in partitionlines group_lines = [ File "/slurm/scripts/setup.py", line 273, in <listcomp> node_group_lines(group, part_name, lkp) File "/slurm/scripts/setup.py", line 210, in node_group_lines machine_conf = lkp.template_machine_conf(node_group.instance_template) File "/slurm/scripts/util.py", line 1540, in template_machine_conf _div = 2 if getThreadsPerCore(template) == 1 else 1 File "/slurm/scripts/util.py", line 1117, in getThreadsPerCore if not isSmt(template): File "/slurm/scripts/util.py", line 1099, in isSmt machineTypeCore: int = int(matches["core"]) ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '8g' https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm-gcp/commit/6cb0fd3f706ee5fc742a7c243bf2648ee45a9729 also seems to make the same assumption