# Launchers

## Types

### direct (default)

By default, jobs are launched directly by the scheduler using python scripts.

### Slurm (since 0.8.7)

The [Slurm](https://slurm.schedmd.com/documentation.html) workload manager launcher is supported.
It is possible to use different settings for different jobs by using the `config`
method of the launcher

```py3

from experimaestro.launchers.slurm import SlurmLauncher

launcher = SlurmLauncher(nodes=1)
gpulauncher = launcher.config(gpu_per_node=1)

with experiment(launcher=launcher):
    # Default
    mytask().submit()

    # If needed, options can be used
    mytask().submit(launcher=gpulauncher)
```

The Slurm launcher constructor and the `config` method can take the following parameters:

- `nodes`: Number of requested nodes
- `time`: Maximum job time (in seconds)
- `gpus`: Total number of GPUs
- `gpus_per_node`: Number of GPUs per node
- `account`: The slurm account for launching the job
- `qos`: The requested Quality of Service

To use launcher configuration files, one can use an automatic convertion tool

```sh
scontrol show nodes | experimaestro launchers slurm convert
```

## Launcher configuration file (since 0.11)

In order to automate the process of choosing the right launcher, a `launchers.yaml`
configuration file can be written.

```py
# Finds a launcher so that we get 2 CUDA GPUs with 14G of memory (at least) on each
from experimaestro.launcherfinder import cuda_gpu, find_launcher
gpulauncher = find_launcher(cuda_gpu(mem="14G") * 2)
```

Simple strings can also be parsed (for configuration files)

```py

from experimaestro.launcherfinder import find_launcher

find_launcher("""duration=4 days & cuda(mem=4G) * 2 & cpu(mem=400M, cores=4)""")
```

## Tags

Tags can be used to filter out some launchers

```py

from experimaestro.launcherfinder import find_launcher

find_launcher("""duration=4 days & cuda(mem=4G) * 2 & cpu(mem=400M, cores=4)""", tags=["slurm"])
```
will search for a launcher that has the tag `slurm` (see example below).

## Search process

Launcher groups are sorted by decreasing weights and filtered by group before the search.
Then, for each launcher group, experimaestro searches for the first matching launcher (details
are type-specific).

## Example of a configuration

This configurations contains four launcher groups (two local, two through slurm).


```yaml
# --- Local launchers

local:
  - # Standard launcher for small tasks
    connector: local
    weight: 5

    # Describes the available CPUs
    cpu: { cores: 40, memory: 1G }

  - # Intensive launcher with more memory and GPU
    connector: local
    weight: 4

    # Use a token to avoid running too many tasks
    tokens:
      localtoken: 1

    cpu: { cores: 40, memory: 8G }

    gpus:
      - model: GTX1080
        count: 1
        memory: 8116MiB

# --- Slurm launchers

slurm:
  # We can use fully manual SLURM configuration
  -
    # ID for this launcher configuration
    id: manual

    # slurm clients are on the local machine
    connector: local

    # Tags for filtering the launcher configurations
    tags: [slurm]

    # Weight to select a launcher configuration (higher, better)
    weight: 3

    # Describes the GPU features and link them to the two
    # possible properties (memory and number of GPUs)
    features_regex:
      # GPU3 means "3 GPUs" on the node
      - GPU(?P<cuda_count>\d+)
      # GPUM32G means "32G" of GPU memory
      - GPUM(?P<cuda_memory>\d+G)

    # Quality of service
    qos:
      qos_gpu-t3:
        # Jobs have 20h hours max to complete
        max_duration: 20h
        # We need to reserver at least one GPU
        min_gpu: 1
        # Priority increase for this QoS
        priority: 1

      qos_gpu-t4:
        max_duration: 100h
        min_gpu: 1


    options:
      gpu:
        # At least 70% of the memory should be requested
        # (from version 0.11.8)
        # For instance, if the GPU has 64G, we won't target it
        # if we request less than 44.8G (= 70% of 64G)
        min_mem_ratio: 0.7

    partitions:
      # Partition "big GPUs"
      biggpus:
        # has two types of nodes
        nodes:
          - # Nodes yep/yop
            hosts: [yop, yep]
            # Associated features
            features: [GPU3, GPUM48G]
          - hosts: [yip, yup, yap]
            features: [GPU2, GPUM24G]

      # Partition "Small GPUs"
      smallgpus:
        nodes:
          - hosts: [alpha, beta, gamma, delta]
            features: [GPU2, GPUM24G]


      gpu_p4:
        # QoS that must be used with this partition
        qos: [qos_gpu-t3, qos_gpu-t4]

        # Accounts that can must used for this partition
        accounts: [iea@a100]

        # Default node configuration
        configuration:
          gpus:
            count: 8
            model: A100
            memory: 40GiB

        nodes:
        - count: 0
          features:
          - Tesla
          - a100
        priority: 1

  # We can also use SLURM for semi-automatic configuration
  - id: auto
    connector: local
    tags: [slurm]

    # Describes the GPU features and link them to the two
    # possible properties (memory and number of GPUs)
    features_regex:
      - GPU(?P<cuda_count>\d+)
      - GPUM(?P<cuda_memory>\d+G)

    partitions:
      # Disable the "heavy" partition
      heavy: { disabled: true }

    # Use `sinfo` to ask partition/node details (e.g. name and features)
    query_slurm: true
```
