FPGA Hardware Compile Issue for S10 PAC

[Christoph9]

Hello,

I have the same issue. The problem is - at least in my case - that although I issued my job-request with fpga_compile attribute, my script is executed on node s001-012 - which has no fpga_compile attribute (according to pbsnodes) and therefore no quartus installation.

Whatever I do, my scripts always run on nodes which have no quartus installation, even - as specified -with fpga_compile. E.g.

     qsub -l nodes=fpga_compile:ppn=2 -d . run.sh -l walltime=24:00:00

The fpga_compile nodes are, according to pbsnodes, all fully occupied since days (more than 4 now) and I couldnt issue a single fpga-compilation. Shouldnt qsub place them in a queue for execution and not schedule them on a random node with completely different attributes than stated?

My solution however is to just compile on the FPGA-nodes itself for the time being. In my case I just need to load the most recent CMake installation via 'module load cmake/3.21.2' and it compiles also on the FPGA-nodes.

This however could be annoying for other users of the FPGA-nodes itself (although they are never fully occupied, so at least for now this is  no problem). So it would be great if the compile-nodes get fixed!

Best regards,
Christoph

[AthiraM_Intel · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Intel Communities.

There seems to be an issue with the command you are using to submit the script. Because of  that you got a random node.

Please find the correct command below:

qsub -l nodes=1:fpga_compile:ppn=2 -d . run.sh

Please refer the following link for more details: https://devcloud.intel.com/oneapi/documentation/job-submission/

We could see that some fpga_compile nodes are free now. Could you please try to run the script in free node by specifying the node number?

Please use the below commands:

• To check available free nodes:

pbsnodes | grep fpga_compile -B 4

• To run the script by specifying a node:

qsub -l nodes=s001-n079:ppn=2 -d . run.sh

Please change the node number as per it's state (free).

If you have any further issue, please let us know.

Thanks

[Christoph9]

Thank you, you are right! When using your command my jobs get scheduled again on fpga_compile nodes.

[AthiraM_Intel]

Hi,

Thanks for accepting our solution. If you need any additional information, please post a new question as this thread will no longer be monitored by Intel.

Thanks