[CentOS] HPC question: torques replacement

Sun Apr 19 11:45:26 UTC 2020
Benson Muite <benson_muite at emailplus.org>

Valeri,
May also be of interest:
http://oar.imag.fr/
Benson

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, at 7:48 PM, Dahringer, Richard wrote:
> Hey Valeri -
> IIRC, midway (and maybe midway2?) use slurm for job scheduling.  I 
> don't know how many of your faculty use both your nodes and midway, but 
> maybe consolidating on to a single scheduler would be easier for them?  
> 
> (also, it's been a while ... hi! 😊 )
> Richard
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> On Behalf Of Valeri Galtsev
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 10:28
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] HPC question: torques replacement
> 
> Dear Experts,
> 
> I know there are many HPC (high performance computing) experts on this 
> list. I'd like to ask your advise.
> 
> Almost two decades ago I chose to go with OpenPBS (turned down condor 
> and other alternatives for whatever reason) for clusters and number 
> crunchers I support for the Department at the university. It turned out 
> to be not bad, long lived choice. At some point I smoothly migrated to 
> torque which was advertised as open source project (based on PBS, but 
> it was much less hassle to compile...). Torque ceased to be open source 
> two years ago, it is proprietary now. At some point I have to migrate 
> away from torque for this reason. One of the ways would be to switch 
> (back) to open source PBS Pro (pbspro.org).
> 
> I wonder what other options experts would recommend. Hopefully, not too 
> far from torque (or PBS) from user prospective.
> 
> Thanks a lot for all your advises!
> 
> Valeri
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