Hallo Manuel, a nice domain name you have. On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:11:02 Manuel Prinz wrote: > 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 PBS-derived systems are accepted. From my personal view you are wrong but it would be on popcon to give us absolute numbers.
> 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. I keep nagging the Torque upstream developers about officiall supporting Debian or to allow us promoting their work via Debian on a yearly basis. You find very nice diff.gzs for Debianisation on the net and we have some on our own. All I get in reply are "we are thinking about it - many thanks for your offer"-replies. The license can be read in a way that one would not even need to ask, but it is at least against my principles not to have asked and I IIRC it is also against Debian's. Hence, I personally think that SLURM should be the way to go, although I am not prepared to change for the moment, not having the glimpse of an idea how well it works. Good luck! Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
