[slurm-users] combine RAM between different nodes

2019-04-17 Thread Susanne Pfeifer
Dear slurm community, I am relatively new to Slurm and I am wondering whether it is possible to combine RAM between different nodes (e.g., can I combine three nodes with 384GB RAM each to run a job that requires 1TB RAM)? And if, could you please advise how to do so (I can't seem to find any d

Re: [slurm-users] combine RAM between different nodes

2019-04-17 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hey Suzanne, In order to "combine" RAM between different systems, you will need a hardware/software solution like ScaleMP, or you need a software framework like OpenMPI. If your software is already written to use MPI then, in a sense, it is "combining" the memory. SLURM is a resource manager and