submitit_oar 1.1.1

OAR plugin for Submitit

What is submitit_oar?

submitit_oar is an Oar plugin for Submitit, which is a Python 3.8+ lightweight toolbox for submitting Python functions for computation within a Slurm cluster. It basically wraps submission and provide access to results, logs and more.

How to install submitit_oar?

Quick install, in a virtualenv/conda environment where pip is installed (check which pip):

• latest release:

pip install submitit_oar==1.1.0

• from source:

pip install git+https://github.com/ychiat35/submitit_oar@main#egg=submitit_oar

How to use the submitit_oar plugin?

From inside an environment with submitit and submitit_oar installed, you can run this addition example:

import submitit

def add(a, b):
    return a + b

# logs are dumped in the folder
executor = submitit.AutoExecutor(folder="log_test", cluster="oar")

job_addition = executor.submit(add, 5, 7)  # will compute add(5, 7)
output = job_addition.result()  # waits for completion and returns output
# if ever the job failed, result() will raise an error with the corresponding trace
print('job_addition output: ', output)
assert output == 12

You can try running this above example with a breakpoint at https://github.com/facebookincubator/submitit/blob/main/submitit/core/plugins.py#L33, to be sure that Submitit correctly finds the submitit_oar plugin.

Releasing submitit_oar

Create a tag matching the version to release in gitlab, it should create a pipeline which will push the package to PyPi. If you want to do this manually, populate the FLIT_PASSWORD environment variable with the API token, and run make release