Re: Revisiting batch/queue systems: slurm and munge
Hi Dirk,
sorry for quoting all your mail, I do it for Josselin convenience. If
you check the slurm-llnl ITP Bug report logs (351688) [Bug] you
will see that Joss has offered himself for sponsorship.
Anyway I'm still waiting for some feedback and help about my last
package version (especially about the /dev/random problem) and I don't
know if Joss is still interested in working on this.
In general any comment about my package are welcome. At the moment I
have uploaded on my repository the version I'm using, but I can provide
an update version of the package soon.
I'm happily working with munge and slurm on my debian cluster and
I would like to see it uploaded to the main distribution and to
contribute to this. Thanks for your interest
Gennaro
[Bug] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351688
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:40:10PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Last August, I started a short discussion here regarding batch management /
> queue / scheduler / resource managment software for cluster computing. I
> already mentioned slumrm [1] and munge [2]. The conclusion then was
> unsatisfying -- we don't have anything in Debian. At the time, I was unaware
> of Gennaro Oliva's mail to debian-mentors [3] and his package snapshots.
>
> To cut a long story short, I built two crude packages today I would like to
> offer for co-maintenance. Given my existing 80-some Debian packages, I really
> shouldn't take any more on. The crude packages will do for work, so if
> nobody has time or energy to pick them up ... I won't push the issue either.
> Because the packages deal with resources, authentication, ... they are not
> exactly trivial and would need some tender love and care to be done real
> well. They mostly autoconf fine, esp munge. Slurm needs a replacement
> scripts for /etc/init.d, a few contributed manual pages but nothing major.
>
> That said, I think it would be worth it. I am quite impressed with slurm.
> For a quick overview, see the website [1] and e.g. the recent presentation
> from 2006 [4] . Slurm is under active development and just released 1.2.1,
> it now even has a nice little gtk-based gui. [ Munge is used by slurm and is
> a smaller/simpler package. It already detects Debian in its init.d script and
> does The Right Thing. ]
>
> Gennaro: Are you still interested in working on this? I could possibly act
> as mentor and 'final compiler / uploader'.
>
> Anybody else working on clusters who needs a DFSG-free resource manager /
> scheduler?
>
> Dirk
>
> [1] http://www.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/
> [2] http://home.gna.org/munge/ -- but really also from llnl.gov
> [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/05/msg00020.html
> [4] http://www.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/slurm_design.pdf
>
> --
> Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
> -- Thomas A. Edison
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