♻️ Unify QDMI Slurm integration and the reusable cluster

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Description

Run QDMI workloads through one MQT Core Slurm integration. Slurm licenses select device IDs; the workload environment supplies the catalogue and credentials. The optional standalone SPANK module supplies license-specific site defaults, with the submitted job environment taking precedence.

mqt-core-qdmi-check --device ID --timeout SECONDS probes whether a device is operational after environment setup. It accepts IDLE/BUSY without submitting work, bounds initialization and worker exit, and suppresses potentially sensitive device output. It uses the common native-tool launcher and runtime installation helpers from #2715. There is no automatic SPANK validation or separate --qdmi-* job-option interface.

The reusable docker/slurm/ cluster has one controller image and a scalable compute service, using Slurm dynamic registration. It supports demonstrations through ordinary Docker Compose and supplies the cluster for integration tests. Device repositories provide their installation setup, local mock, and small workload smoke tests. The supported Docker host is disposable, rootful Linux with cgroup v2; jobs run without root.

The GPL SPANK module stays outside MQT Core's MIT wheels and source packages. It compiles independently against Slurm 25.11+ headers; clang-tidy needs configuration only. The guide covers ordinary job environment setup first and optional site defaults separately.

Addresses #2360 and incorporates the availability command from #2600. Supersedes #2600 and #2601 so the integration is reviewed together.

Native GNU builds also include the resolved CPU target in the sccache key. Hosted runners otherwise reused incompatible -march=native objects across different CPUs, causing illegal-instruction failures during tests and Python stub generation. Deployment builds are unchanged.

Validation

• Standalone SPANK configure, build, installation, symbol/linkage checks, and configure-only clang-tidy pass; changed-file MQT Core C++ lint and repository lint pass.
• 40 focused Python tests and seven native Slurm/checker tests pass, including availability, initialization timeout, and exit-handler timeout.
• Fresh-wheel Slurm 25.11.2 integration passes with three compute nodes: admission, environment precedence, non-root execution, rejection without node drain, batch completion, and explicit availability gating.
• Plain Docker Compose demonstration passes: two nodes, live scaling to three, a non-root SC workload, and a three-node srun.
• Wheel contents include the checker and exclude SPANK; the source package also excludes SPANK.
• IQM and Braket smoke tests pass in both native and wheel modes against this implementation.
• Compact checker CLI tests cover help, argument errors, operational status, and bounded failures; local checker line coverage is 89.4% (the repository target is 90% with 1% tolerance).
• Hosted probes confirm stable native cache keys, distinct keys across three CPU models, and cache hits on repeat builds.
• Final-head hosted Slurm, native tests (including 3,987 Linux tests), lint, Python stub generation/type checks, coverage, and documentation pass. The Windows Python test job is still running. Local Slurm smoke tests use mocks; no real quantum hardware was used.

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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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📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• 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.

• Chores

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

Walkthrough

This pull request adds an optional Slurm SPANK plugin that injects license-scoped QDMI configuration into remote jobs. It also expands the Slurm integration fixture, provider tests, deployment documentation, and build checks.

Changes

SPANK configuration injection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Plugin implementation and standalone build spank/CMakeLists.txt, spank/spank.cpp, spank/LICENSE.md, .github/workflows/slurm.yml	Adds a standalone C++20 SPANK module and Slurm 25.11+ lifecycle hooks. The plugin validates configuration, registers options, matches configured licenses, and applies explicit values or defaults to the job environment. The Slurm workflow builds and lints the module.
Slurm fixture and provider integration test/slurm/Dockerfile, test/slurm/compose.yml, test/slurm/run_integration.py, test/slurm/mqt-slurm-*, test/slurm/provider_probe.py, test/slurm/*_job.py, test/slurm/slurm.conf, test/python/test_slurm_integration.py	Extends the fixture to build the plugin and provider workloads, pass configurable mounts and runtime settings, and run provider and SPANK transport checks. Job output and result files use /jobs; Slurm enables CPU and memory selection.
Deployment and usage documentation docs/glossary.md, docs/qdmi/slurm.md	Documents node roles, provider catalogues, SPANK configuration and precedence, adapter examples, and failure diagnosis.
Build checks and distribution boundaries .github/workflows/ci.yml, .license-tools-config.json, noxfile.py, pyproject.toml	Updates lint exclusions and license and source-distribution settings for SPANK. The CI comments distinguish the SPANK Slurm checks from upstream vendored-header checks.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Slurm
  participant SPANKPlugin
  participant JobEnvironment
  Slurm->>SPANKPlugin: Initialize plugin and register options
  Slurm->>SPANKPlugin: Start remote task initialization
  SPANKPlugin->>JobEnvironment: Read license and applicable QDMI options
  SPANKPlugin->>JobEnvironment: Set explicit values or missing defaults
  SPANKPlugin-->>Slurm: Return task success or failure

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b2e34

The change adds an optional Slurm configuration-injection module and test fixture changes. No merge-blocking issue was found; the only open item is a clearer error message when no provider wheel is built.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b2e34

The new cluster hook has a meaningful deployment and trust-boundary surface. License matching, task rejection, and provider-side authorization limit its intended reach, but failure cleanup and some Slurm lifecycle assumptions are not fully established.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · observed: The hook writes the catalogue and references sequentially, then rejects a task if a later reference or environment operation fails. It does not restore earlier writes; the effect beyond task rejection depends on Slurm discarding that environment.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Where administrators enable the module, submitted options can affect configuration references in jobs on configured compute nodes. The hook does not itself grant provider credentials or device access.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — User-supplied options pass through validation and license-scoped selection before injection. Remote user initialization clears inherited license state; failed clearing blocks later injection, and local task contexts skip it.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The license-selection control assumes Slurm restores allocation-owned license state before task initialization. Source commentary and the exercised single-task cases support that expectation, but do not establish ordering with other plugins or isolation across concurrent and restarted callbacks.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Validate every selected reference before the first environment write, or establish that rejected task environments cannot be observed or reused.
• proposed — Confirm allocation restoration, plugin ordering, and callback isolation for multiple tasks and concurrent or restarted jobs in the supported Slurm deployment.

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Pre-merge checks | 3 | 1 | 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 45 functions across 7 files. (13 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check		The implementation evidence supports the main requirements in #2366. spank/CMakeLists.txt builds an independent Linux C++20 SPANK module from Slurm headers, spank/LICENSE.md provides GPL-3.0 licen…	Provide focused evidence from the reviewed tree or test results for the missing #2366 acceptance cases. The evidence must identify coverage for malformed input, unrelated licenses, multiple providers, safe failure without node drain, wheel …

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within the scope of #2366 and its parent context. SPANK build and license files, packaging exclusions, CI checks, deployment documentation, and the shared Dockerized Slurm fixture dir…
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: unifying QDMI Slurm integration and the reusable cluster.
Description check		The description is detailed and covers the change summary, motivation, dependencies, validation, AI disclosure, and checklist. It also records that full CI and human review remain pending.

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Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The implementation evidence supports the main requirements in #2366. spank/CMakeLists.txt builds an independent Linux C++20 SPANK module from Slurm headers, spank/LICENSE.md provides GPL-3.0 licensing, and pyproject.toml excludes spank/** from source distributions. spank.cpp keeps provider runtimes and credentials out of the module, applies explicit-over-default precedence, rejects mismatched licenses, and clears inherited license state for remote user initialization. The shared fixture adds transport, isolation, rejection, license, and node-state tests. The evidence does not establish automated coverage for every required case: malformed input, unrelated licenses, multiple providers, wheel and sdist artifact inspection, and installed-component license inspection are not identified. Existing tests may provide this coverage, but the supplied evidence does not show it.

Resolution

Provide focused evidence from the reviewed tree or test results for the missing #2366 acceptance cases. The evidence must identify coverage for malformed input, unrelated licenses, multiple providers, safe failure without node drain, wheel and sdist exclusion checks, and installed SPANK license verification.

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Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 45 functions across 7 files. (13 skipped: 13 unsupported.)

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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.