Hi Manuel,
On 15 May 2007 at 13:11, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| Hi everyone,
|
| I've to administrate a small cluster and I'm intersted in your opinion
| or experience with the resource managers/batch systems you use.
|
| ATM, there's Torque installed, and I'm not too happy with it, especially
| with the documentation. I've found a thread on debian-science about
| packaging SLURM [1] and had a look at it, and at a first glance it seems
| that more people care about it then Torque. But that may be wrong.
|
| The cluster is new, so there would be no problem with switching to a
| different resource manager. Our requirements are quite low, a default
| FIFO scheduler will do. (The only thing really needed is support of
| Prologue/Epiloque scripting, addressing single cores and two batch
| queues.)
|
| I've the impression that SLURM will be maintained more actively and
| during a longer time in the future. The better documentation probably
| will ease up things when I run into trouble or the requirements change.
| Torque's documentation is more like a tutorial without much explanation
| of what's happening and I don't feel very comfortable with this.
|
| So, I'd be thankful if you would share you opinion with me! Thanks in
| advance!
Following on a similar thread or two we had here, I have been sponsoring
Gennaro Oliva who has been working on munge [ == authentication service used
by slurm ] packages which we _almost_ got into Debian unstable. The
ftpmaster noticed that another copyright line was missing for two files
internal to munge.
Gennaro has also packaged slurm as slurm-llnl [ Debian already has a slurm
package ] but despite my prodding, has not released anything based on slurm
1.2.* as he is working on a configuration script -- and that's hard.
I am trying to come to terms with slurm and lam myself at work, so I am doing
some testing there too.
Big summary: Yes, these should be forthcoming.
Cheers, Dirk
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