Release Notes #

Ghostscript (including subpackages)

MySpell dictionaries and LightProof

ArgyllCMS

Read the READMEs on the media.

Get the detailed change log information about a particular package from the RPM (where FILENAME.rpm is the name of the RPM):

rpm --changelog -qp FILENAME.rpm

Check the ChangeLog file in the top level of the installation medium for a chronological log of all changes made to the updated packages.

Find more information in the docu directory of the installation medium of SUSE Linux Enterprise for High-Performance Computing 15 SP6. This directory includes PDF versions of the SUSE Linux Enterprise for High-Performance Computing 15 SP6 Installation Quick Start Guide.

For the most up-to-date version of the documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise for High-Performance Computing 15 SP6, see https://documentation.suse.com/sle-hpc/15-SP4.

Find a collection of White Papers in the SUSE Linux Enterprise for High-Performance Computing Resource Library at https://www.suse.com/products/server#resources.

slurmctld - Add new RPC rate limiting feature. This is enabled through SlurmctldParameters=rl_enable, otherwise disabled by default.

Make scontrol reconfigure and sending a SIGHUP to the slurmctld behave the same. If you were using SIGHUP as a 'lighter' scontrol reconfigure to rotate logs please update your scripts to use SIGUSR2 instead.

Change cloud nodes to show by default. PrivateData=cloud is no longer needed.

sreport - Count planned (FKA reserved) time for jobs running in IGNORE_JOBS reservations. Previously was lumped into IDLE time.

job_container/tmpfs - Support running with an arbitrary list of private mount points (/tmp and /dev/shm are the default, but not required).

job_container/tmpfs - Set more environment variables in InitScript.

Make all cgroup directories created by Slurm owned by root. This was the behavior in cgroup/v2 but not in cgroup/v1 where by default the step directories ownership were set to the user and group of the job.

accounting_storage/mysql - change purge/archive to calculate record ages based on end time, rather than start or submission times.

job_submit/lua - add support for log_user() from slurm_job_modify().

Run the following scripts in slurmscriptd instead of slurmctld: ResumeProgram, ResumeFailProgram, SuspendProgram, ResvProlog, ResvEpilog, and RebootProgram (only with SlurmctldParameters=reboot_from_controller).

Only permit changing log levels with srun --slurmd-debug by root or SlurmUser.

slurmctld will fatal() when reconfiguring the job_submit plugin fails.

Add PowerDownOnIdle partition option to power down nodes after nodes become idle.

Add “[jobid.stepid]” prefix from slurmstepd and “slurmscriptd” prefix from slurmcriptd to Syslog logging. Previously was only happening when logging to a file.

Add purge and archive functionality for job environment and job batch script records.

Extend support for Include files to all "configless" client commands.

Make node weight usable for powered down and rebooting nodes.

Removed “launch” plugin.

Add “Extra” field to job to store extra information other than a comment.

Add usage gathering for AMD (requires ROCM 5.5+) and NVIDIA gpus.

Add job’s allocated nodes, features, oversubscribe, partition, and reservation to SLURM_RESUME_FILE output for power saving.

Automatically create directories for stdout/stderr output files. Paths may use %j and related substitution characters as well.

Add --tres-per-task to salloc/sbatch/srun.

Allow nodefeatures plugin features to work with cloud nodes. e.g. - Powered down nodes have no active changeable features.

Make slurmstepd cgroups constrained by total configured memory from slurm.conf (NodeName=<> RealMemory=#) instead of total physical memory.

node_features/helpers - add support for the OR and parentheses operators in a --constraint expression.

slurmctld will fatal() when [Prolog|Epilog]Slurmctld are defined but are not executable.

Validate node registered active features are a super set of node’s currently active changeable features.

On clusters without any PrologFlags options, batch jobs with failed prologs nolonger generate an output file.

Add SLURM_JOB_START_TIME and SLURM_JOB_END_TIME environment variables.

Add SuspendExcStates option to slurm.conf to avoid suspending/powering down specific node states.

Add support for DCMI power readings in IPMI plugin.

slurmrestd served /slurm/v0.0.39 and /slurmdb/v0.0.39 endpoints had major changes from prior versions. Almost all schemas have been renamed and modified. Sites using OpenAPI Generator clients are highly suggested to upgrade to to using atleast version 6.x due to limitations with prior versions.

Allow for --nodelist to contain more nodes than required by --nodes.

Rename “nodes” to “nodes_resume” in SLURM_RESUME_FILE job output.

Rename “all_nodes” to “all_nodes_resume” in SLURM_RESUME_FILE output.

Add jobcomp/kafka plugin.

Add new PreemptParameters=reclaim_licenses option which will allow higher priority jobs to preempt jobs to free up used licenses. (This is only enabled for with PreemptModes of CANCEL and REQUEUE, as Slurm cannot guarantee suspended jobs will release licenses correctly.)

hpe/slingshot - add support for the instant-on feature.

Add ability to update SuspendExc* parameters with scontrol.

Add ability to restore SuspendExc* parameters on restart with slurmctld -R option.

Add ability to clear a GRES specification by setting it to "0" via “scontrol update job”.

Add SLURM_JOB_OVERSUBSCRIBE environment variable for Epilog, Prolog, EpilogSlurmctld, PrologSlurmctld, and mail ouput.

System node down reasons are appended to existing reasons, separated by ':'.

New command scrun has been added. scrun acts as an Open Container Initiative (OCI) runtime proxy to run containers seamlessly via Slurm.

Fixed GpuFreqDef option. When set in slurm.conf, it will be used if --gpu-freq was not explicitly set by the job step.

job_container.conf - Added “Dirs” option to list desired private mount points.

node_features plugins - invalid users specified for AllowUserBoot will now result in fatal() rather than just an error.

Deprecate AllowedKmemSpace, ConstrainKmemSpace, MaxKmemPercent, and MinKmemSpace.

Allow jobs to queue even if the user is not in AllowGroups when EnforcePartLimits=no is set. This ensures consistency for all the Partition access controls, and matches the documented behavior for EnforcePartLimits.

Add InfluxDBTimeout parameter to acct_gather.conf.

job_container/tmpfs - add support for expanding %h and %n in BasePath.

slurm.conf - Removed SlurmctldPlugstack option.

Add new SlurmctldParameters=validate_nodeaddr_threads=<number> option to allow concurrent hostname resolution at slurmctld startup.

Add new AccountingStoreFlags=job_extra option to store a job’s extra field in the database.

Add new “defer_batch” option to SchedulerParameters to only defer scheduling for batch jobs.

Add new DebugFlags option “JobComp” to replace “Elasticsearch”.

Add configurable job requeue limit parameter - MaxBatchRequeue - in slurm.conf to permit changes from the old hard-coded value of 5.

helpers.conf - Allow specification of node specific features.

helpers.conf - Allow many features to one helper script.

job_container/tmpfs - Add “Shared” option to support shared namespaces. This allows autofs to work with the job_container/tmpfs plugin when enabled.

acct_gather.conf - Added EnergyIPMIPowerSensors=Node=DCMI and Node=DCMI_ENHANCED.

Add new “getnameinfo_cache_timeout=<number>” option to CommunicationParameters to adjust or disable caching the results of getnameinfo().

Add new PrologFlags=ForceRequeueOnFail option to automatically requeue batch jobs on Prolog failures regardless of the job --requeue setting.

Add HealthCheckNodeState=NONDRAINED_IDLE option.

Add “explicit” to Flags in gres.conf. This makes it so the gres is not automatically added to a job’s allocation when --exclusive is used. Note that this is a per-node flag.

Moved the “preempt_” options from SchedulerParameters to PreemptParameters, and dropped the prefix from the option names. (The old options will still be parsed for backwards compatibility, but are now undocumented.)

Add LaunchParameters=ulimit_pam_adopt, which enables setting RLIMIT_RSS in adopted processes.

Update SwitchParameters=job_vni to enable/disable creating job VNIs for all jobs, or when a user requests them.

Update SwitchParameters=single_node_vni to enable/disable creating single node VNIs for all jobs, or when a user requests them.

Add ability to preserve SuspendExc* parameters on reconfig with ReconfigFlags=KeepPowerSaveSettings.

slurmdbd.conf - Add new AllResourcesAbsolute to force all new resources to be created with the Absolute flag.

topology/tree - Add new TopologyParam=SwitchAsNodeRank option to reorder nodes based on switch layout. This can be useful if the naming convention for the nodes does not natually map to the network topology.

Removed the default setting for GpuFreqDef. If unset, no attempt to change the GPU frequency will be made if --gpu-freq is not set for the step.

sacctmgr - no longer force updates to the AdminComment, Comment, or SystemComment to lower-case.

sinfo - Add -F/--future option to sinfo to display future nodes.

sacct - Rename “Reserved” field to “Planned” to match sreport and the nomenclature of the 'Planned' node.

scontrol - advanced reservation flag MAINT will no longer replace nodes, similar to STATIC_ALLOC

sbatch - add parsing for #PBS -d and #PBS -w.

scontrol show assoc_mgr will show username(uid) instead of uid in QoS section.

Add strigger --draining and -R/--resume options.

Change --oversubscribe and --exclusive to be mutually exclusive for job submission. Job submission commands will now fatal if both are set. Previously, these options would override each other, with the last one in the job submission command taking effect.

scontrol - Requested TRES and allocated TRES will now always be printed when showing jobs, instead of one TRES output that was either the requested or allocated.

srun --ntasks-per-core now applies to job and step allocations. Now, use of --ntasks-per-core=1 implies --cpu-bind=cores and --ntasks-per-core>1 implies --cpu-bind=threads.

salloc/sbatch/srun - Check and abort if ntasks-per-core > threads-per-core.

scontrol - Add ResumeAfter=<secs> option to “scontrol update nodename=”.

Add a new “nodes=” argument to scontrol setdebug to allow the debug level on the slurmd processes to be temporarily altered.

Add a new “nodes=” argument to “scontrol setdebugflags” as well.

Make it so scrontab prints client-side the job_submit() error messsage (which can be set i.e. by using the log_user() function for the lua plugin).

scontrol - Reservations will not be allowed to have STATIC_ALLOC or MAINT flags and REPLACE[_DOWN] flags simultaneously.

scontrol - Reservations will only accept one reoccurring flag when being created or updated.

scontrol - A reservation cannot be updated to be reoccurring if it is already a floating reservation.

squeue - removed unused “%s” and “SelectJobInfo” formats.

squeue - align print format for exit and derived codes with that of other components (<exit_status>:<signal_number>).

sacct - Add --array option to expand job arrays and display array tasks on separate lines.

Partial support for “--json” and “--yaml” formated outputs have been implemented for sacctmgr, sdiag, sinfo, squeue, and scontrol. The resultant data ouput will be filtered by normal command arguments. Formatting arguments will continue to be ignored.

salloc/sbatch/srun - extended the --nodes syntax to allow for a list of valid node counts to be allocated to the job. This also supports a "step count" value (e.g., --nodes=20-100:20 is equivalent to --nodes=20,40,60,80,100) which can simplify the syntax when the job needs to scale by a certain "chunk" size.

srun - add user requestible vnis with “--network=job_vni” option.

srun - add user requestible single node VNIs with the “--network=single_node_vni” option.

job_container plugins - container_p_stepd_create() function signature replaced uint32_t uid with stepd_step_rec_t* step.

gres plugins - gres_g_get_devices() function signature replaced pid_t pid with stepd_step_rec_t* step.

cgroup plugins - task_cgroup_devices_constrain() function signature removed pid_t pid.

task plugins - replace task_p_pre_set_affinity(), task_p_set_affinity(), and task_p_post_set_affinity() with task_p_pre_launch_priv() like it was back in slurm 20.11.

Allow for concurrent processing of job_submit_g_submit() and job_submit_g_modify() calls. If your plugin is not capable of concurrent operation you must add additional locking within your plugin.

Removed return value from slurm_list_append().

The List and ListIterator types have been removed in favor of list_t and list_itr_t respectively.

burst buffer plugins - add bb_g_build_het_job_script(). bb_g_get_status() - added authenticated UID and GID. bb_g_run_script() - added job_info argument.

burst_buffer.lua - Pass UID and GID to most hooks. Pass job_info (detailed job information) to many hooks. See etc/burst_buffer.lua.example for a complete list of changes. WARNING: Backwards compatibility is broken for slurm_bb_get_status: UID and GID are passed before the variadic arguments. If UID and GID are not explicitly listed as arguments to slurm_bb_get_status(), then they will be included in the variadic arguments. Backwards compatibility is maintained for all other hooks because the new arguments are passed after the existing arguments.

node_features plugins - node_features_p_reboot_weight() function removed. node_features_p_job_valid() - added parameter feature_list. node_features_p_job_xlate() - added parameters feature_list and job_node_bitmap.

New data_parser interface with v0.0.39 plugin.

The --uid option for the srun command is broken: its use may lead to the error message job <job ID> queued and waiting for resources. This does not, however, affect the sbatch command.