Re: Revisiting batch/queue systems: slurm and munge
Hi Gennaro,
On 7 March 2007 at 11:34, oliva.g@na.icar.cnr.it wrote:
| 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.
Ahh, I missed that. I saw Thijs response to your initial RFS, but not the
ITP. Cool.
| 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.
Let's take it off-line then. I used /dev/urandom in postinst for munge but
then realized that you don't really need or want this as the crypto key is
generated only once and then copied across the cluster.
|
| 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'll have a look and maybe update my installation to your versions.
| 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
Same here. Thanks for your work on this -- we'll have slurm and munge in
Debian before long.
Dirk
|
| 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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-- Thomas A. Edison
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