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Description

Provide a shared HPCQC playground in examples/slurm: login submission, scalable classical and quantum access nodes, and persistent SlurmDBD/MariaDB accounting. Every QAN connects to all configured devices through QDMI. One environment and catalogue serve all implementations; shared application files connect classical and quantum workflow stages.

Keep scheduler policy in the playground. A bounded, quiet Python probe uses the ordinary QDMI API to update license-only reservations. Operational devices admit new allocations; failed checks withhold their licenses. User and monitor credentials remain separate. Availability is a snapshot, and controller communication failures require administrator attention.

Docker builds the checked-out MQT Core source with setup-mlir and installs additional PyPI, Git, or local-source packages through uv. The private MQT Core wheel uses version 4.1.0 and includes Qiskit/PennyLane extras. Device wheels provide their native libraries and catalogues, so no separate native mode or catalogue-generation callback is needed. Build tools stay outside the runtime image. Linux Docker Engine and macOS Docker Desktop use the same setup.

One Slurm guide covers cluster startup, device configuration, job submission, monitoring, accounting, and site deployment. Its topology shows the shared filesystem, QDMI interface, and individual device connectors. Single-device jobs derive their catalogue ID from one local Slurm license; applications using several devices pass explicit IDs to independent driver sessions. The scientific workload remains a separate application.

API removal: MQT Core 4.0 shipped mqt.core.qdmi.slurm.open_device_from_license() and qdmi::slurm::openDeviceFromLicense()/qdmi/Slurm.hpp. Callers must pass their device ID to builtin_driver.open_device(id) or qdmi::builtin_driver::openDevice(id) and request the matching Slurm license. The native checker, Python entry point, adapters, and their dedicated build/test machinery are removed. No SPANK plugin is required.

Closes #2310, closes #2311, closes #2312. Addresses #2360 and supersedes the SPANK direction in #2366/#2313; incorporates #2600/#2601. IQM #265 and Braket #237 use the shared deployment. Richer readiness studies and release pins remain separate.

Validation

• Based on upstream main 974e4fdc8561bd92b241c207546331ba9b4deb3a; all three PR bases are current.
• 15 runner/monitor cases, full lint, strict Sphinx build, and complete generated-site link checks pass. Chrome desktop/mobile inspection covers the merged guide, topology, and downstream guides.
• The source-built Linux ARM64 cluster passes with three classical nodes and two QANs: DDSIM/SC execution, license contention, admission/recovery, environment export, placement, and persistent accounting. The full run took 148 seconds; runtime metadata and imports report MQT Core 4.1.0 and dependency checks pass.
• Authenticated package-only Slurm workloads passed: eight Emerald Resonance mock shots (73 seconds total), plus eight SV1 shots through each of Qiskit and PennyLane (340 seconds total). Each workload verified the installed wheel library.
• A cache-preserving requirements change reran environment installation in 1.9 seconds without recompiling Braket or its SDK; the resulting image passes dependency checks.
• All five device notebooks executed freshly. This update changes no native API beyond the earlier removal, which passed 591 QDMI CTest cases (one existing skip) and 378 installed-wheel Python cases (one skip).
• Mac hardware has not been exercised locally. Final-head hosted CI is pending.

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Thanks @flowerthrower 🙏🏼 Finally managed to take this for a spin. You'll find the output of that below and in the other PRs of this stack. I feel pretty confident that this should not need too many more iterations. I hope the feedback generally makes sense (to you, and also your agent).

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Early feedback on 6ca99547, consolidated across this stack with separate design, Docker, and Slurm reviews.

The ownership boundaries are sensible: Core owns static selection and the shared fixture; the standalone SPANK component transports configuration; providers own their installation, catalogues, credentials, and workloads. Keep the standalone build, source-only GPL boundary, distinct reference options, job identity, and daemon-environment isolation.

The main recommendations are to narrow injection to the same single local unit license supported by Core, decouple provider compilation from the changing Core image, and reduce repeated or ineffective fixture checks. The inline comments give concrete changes and the coverage to retain. The single-license recommendation deliberately reduces supported injection behavior; it should be documented as such.

For the operations guide, describe the actual deployment roles:

• Submission/login nodes need Slurm clients and the matching SPANK module/configuration.
• Compute nodes need slurmd, cgroup v2, SPANK, and the selected workload environment. Use consistent numeric identities and readable catalogue/library paths, either through shared storage or identical installations.
• The controller owns scheduling and cluster-wide license counts; it does not need provider SDKs. Persistent accounting can use slurmdbd, but the fixture's local static licenses do not require it.
• Provider credentials remain part of the job context.

One pre-existing correction fits this guide cleanup: SelectTypeParameters=CR_CPU does not provide the allocation-based RAM enforcement described here. Use an appropriate CR_*_Memory configuration when enabling those memory constraints (SchedMD reference). Describe the privileged Docker setup as a fixture for rootful Docker on a disposable Linux cgroup-v2 host.

I would keep the inexpensive runner tests and the failure/cleanup checks. Provider wheels in native mode are also intentional: the Python adapters need them while the catalogue selects the native library. Avoid expanding this into a new provider-image framework.

Validation for this review: the 22 lightweight runner tests passed at this head. Source inspection and focused probes support the specific findings; no full Docker cluster rerun was performed. This is early design feedback, not an approval or a request-changes review.

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• New Features

  • Added an optional Slurm SPANK integration that can pass configured QDMI references and catalogue settings to jobs. Static license selection remains available without SPANK.
  • Expanded Slurm guidance with deployment options, provider examples, configuration steps, and troubleshooting information.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved Slurm integration checks for provider configuration, SPANK option handling, and job environment setup.

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  • Updated automated checks to cover SPANK changes and adjusted Slurm test-environment setup.

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[burgholzer]

Hey @flowerthrower 🙌

Thanks for pushing further on this. I ran another review over this, and it feels like we are converging. I'll have to take a deeper look next week. but I think this looks pretty good already.

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Re-reviewed 13c3334b with independent Docker, Slurm, and design passes. The six earlier inline requests are addressed: provider compilation is independent of the candidate Core runtime, injection matches exactly ID/ID:1, the daemon-environment scan and batch hold are gone, the common transport suite runs only in Core, compute services share their configuration, and the deployment/precedence documentation is explicit. The missing-provider-wheel guard requested in the bot thread is present too.

No new correctness blocker found in this PR. The two intended contracts remain useful: one selected device license, and (in #2601) one provider context per node/step. Keep the long unrelated-license scenario, provider adapter/library checks, and the lightweight runner tests. The full fixture still needs MLIR for its DDSIM OpenQASM workload.

Optional prose cleanup only: “retains its GPL-3.0-or-later license” → “is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later”; “existing sccache compiler integration” → “sccache compiler integration”.

Validation: 22/22 lightweight runner tests passed; expanded Compose configuration is equivalent across the anchor change; the current hosted Slurm run passes. A full Docker cluster was not rerun locally. The follow-up findings are on #2600 (installed runtime lookup) and #2601 (cancellation-test isolation and one redundant success allocation).

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Implemented the consolidated simplification in 28ebf9fcc, based on current main. The main contract is ordinary Slurm environment export plus an explicit availability probe after workload setup. SPANK remains useful only for license-specific site defaults; it no longer adds custom job options or automatic validation.

The cluster is now reusable under docker/slurm/, with native Compose scaling and dynamic Slurm nodes. Two-to-three-node scaling and a three-node workload pass. Device compilation remains independent of MQT Core/SPANK changes, and workflow-only pin updates do not invalidate that compilation.

The separate availability helper/launcher, validation cache, provider-install helper, and installed-checker CMake harness are removed. SPANK loses 334 lines, checker CMake tests shrink from 172 to 50 lines, and the Slurm guide shrinks from 444 to 162 lines. Failure-path coverage is deliberately narrower: bounded initialization and exit, operational status, and real job gating remain; the old matrix of synthetic plugin/checker cases is gone.

Local validation passes: 40 focused Python tests, seven native checks, standalone SPANK configuration/build/install/clang-tidy, C++ and repository lint, clean source packaging, the shared cluster, and IQM/Braket native and wheel workloads. Final-head hosted Slurm, native tests (including 3,987 Linux tests), lint, Python stub generation, coverage, and documentation checks pass; the Windows Python test job is still running. A separate hosted Linux failure was traced to sccache reusing native CPU instructions across different runner models; this revision keys those entries by the compiler-resolved CPU target. Hosted probes confirm stable keys and repeat-build cache hits on three CPU models. The previous Linux runtime-copy failure is covered by the runtime staging fixes already merged in #2715; the clean local build passes.

#2600 and #2601 are superseded by this PR. Existing review threads were already resolved when refreshed; no unresolved threads were found.

[burgholzer]

Alright. Many thanks @flowerthrower for all your initial work on this PR stack series across the repositories!
This was a good base to start investigating from.
As you can probably tell from the number of commits I pushed to the PR, I iterated on this quite heavily. It should be possible to roughly follow my line of thought by reading the commit messages of the individual commits. They are obviously AI-generated, but probably still a good, condensed summary.

Most notably, I entirely removed the SPANK plugins throughout the series in favor of a per-license/device monitor-service. Over the course of the iteration, SPANK turned out to provide less and less value. This way, we also have no licensing issues, and everything can stay permissively licensed.
I am probably very biased by now, but I also think that the documentation guide now reads pretty well and is generally helpful 😌

I think this is in a pretty good state now, and is ready for the 4.1 release.
I'll get this and the companion PRs merged now so that the changes make it into the upcoming releases.

Thanks again for all the work on this @flowerthrower! 🙏🏼