discrepancy between pcluster partition conf and EC2 instance specification

Question

Submitting a slurm job with parameters
```
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=6
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:1
#SBATCH --partition=gpu-t4
```
fails with
```
sbatch: error: CPU count per node can not be satisfied
```
The partition comprises g4dn.2xlarge instances with 8 "vCPUs", according to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g4.
Surprisingly to me, `/opt/slurm/etc/pcluster/slurm_parallelcluster_gpu-t4_partition.conf` includes
```
NodeName=gpu-t4-dy-g4dn-2xlarge-[1-2] CPUs=4 RealMemory=31129 State=CLOUD Feature=dynamic,g4dn.2xlarge,g4dn-2xlarge,gpu Gres=gpu:t4:1
```
Should not `CPUs=` be larger than 4 for this specific instance type?

Answer

I searched some more and and found that, according to
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/cpu-options-supported-instances-values.html#cpu-options-accelerated,
g4dn.2xlarge may not be supporting more than 4 "Valid CPU cores".

Answer

If DisableSimultaneousMultithreading is not specified in the cluster configuration file, the CPU is 8:
`NodeName=queue1-st-g4dn2xlarge-[1-1] CPUs=8 RealMemory=31129 State=CLOUD Feature=static,g4dn.2xlarge,g4dn2xlarge,gpu Gres=gpu:t4:1`

If DisableSimultaneousMultithreading is set to true in the cluster configuration file, the CPU is 4:
`NodeName=queue1-st-g4dn2xlarge-[1-1] CPUs=4 RealMemory=31129 State=CLOUD Feature=static,g4dn.2xlarge,g4dn2xlarge,gpu Gres=gpu:t4:1`

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/latest/ug/Scheduling-v3.html#yaml-Scheduling-SlurmQueues-ComputeResources-DisableSimultaneousMultithreading for more information

discrepancy between pcluster partition conf and EC2 instance specification

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