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Batch systems: Torque, SLURM, other?



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!

Best regards
Manuel

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 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/03/msg00007.html

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