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PMIx support dropped in 21.08.5

Asked by Pierre Devlaminck

If the Ubuntu OpenMPI packages are still built with PMIx, why was support for PMIx dropped with slurm-wlm?

PMIx support in slurm-wlm was dropped in 21.08.5-1 in Jan 2022 which now breaks any PMI compatibility with the libopenmpi3 package which is still built against an external PMIx v4.1
Launching MPI jobs with srun directly no longer works. Even with the srun '--mpi=none' option.
'srun --mpi=list' says that it has PMI-2 support but the openmpi package is only built with PMIx support and not the legacy PMI-1 and PMI-2 interfaces.
Since people who generally use slurm would also be highly likely to use an MPI implementation like OpenMPI, I am confused on why support for PMIx was dropped for slurm.

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#1

https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/slurm-wlm
I do not know why the support was dropped.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=jammy&section=all&arch=any&keywords=PMIx&searchon=names

Slurm's homepage:
https://slurm.schedmd.com/troubleshoot.html
There is a Troubleshooting guide.

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Pierre Devlaminck (pdevla) said : 		#2

Is there a way to submit a request that slurm is built with PMIx support again?

It should be built with the same libpmix2 package that openmpi is built with.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

"Is there a way to submit a request ..."

Please create a bug report, providing as much detail as possible.

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