Hi Yuri, > I'm genuinely curious as to why one would actually want to fix Maui or > even write a Maui-compatible scheduler from scratch this day and year? > > I've been using Torque & Maui for quite some time, but eventually got > tired of patching and finally completely discouraged once I've realized > that it's been abandoned for practical purposes. > > At the same time, I've discovered the awesomeness of SLURM and I see no > reason to look back. Besides, there are other free batch & scheduling > systems, such as the already mentioned Son of Grid Engine, so... > > Why Maui? I still get shivers thinking of the last time I had a look at > the source code...
We might change to SLURM at some point, especially if the four national systems to be installed next year (here in Canada) go this route, but for the time being we want to maintain some compatibility between installed system. All the systems that we provide in my province use Torque with either Moab or Maui. I take care of Torque and Maui here on campus. If I were to change our few clusters from Torque/Maui to SLURM, this would disturb all the users, not only the staff. Lots of users run on several cluster at different sites. Anyway, the last time I looked at SLURM, it seemed to me that its scheduler had many options missing compared to Maui. Maybe it is better now. -- Michel Béland, analyste en calcul scientifique [email protected] bureau S-250, pavillon Roger-Gaudry (principal), Université de Montréal téléphone : 514 343-6111 poste 3892 télécopieur : 514 343-2155 Calcul Québec (www.calculquebec.ca) Calcul Canada (calculcanada.ca) _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list [email protected] http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
