[slurm-dev] Re: Slurm with Torque

[Benjamin Redling]

Hello Mahmood,

Am 16.04.2017 um 16:11 schrieb Mahmood Naderan:
> Hi,
> Currently, Torque is running on our cluster. I want to know, is it
> possible to install Slurm, create some test partitions, submit some test
> jobs and be sure that it is working while Torque is running?
> Then we are able to tell the users to use Slurm scripts.  Any feedback
> is welcomed.

I would recommend to partition the hosts (whatever is easy to implement
for you: namespaces, containers, virtual machines, ...)
Out of necessity we have Slurm running with Ganeti KVM instances (type
"plain") as virtual Slurm nodes to protect infrastructure VMs (type
"DRBD" & "plain") on the same hosts
-- with no obvious performance penalties.

I don't know how Torque tracks resource usage (could it handle an
/external/ process -- your host suddenly having load from /somewhere/
else?).
AFAIK Slurm can only track resources it scheduled itself.

Regards,
Benjamin
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[slurm-dev] Re: Slurm with Torque

[r...@open-mpi.org]

Sure - all you have to do is pull some nodes out of the Torque configuration 
(so Torque doesn’t know they exist), and then install Slurm on those nodes 
(adding just those nodes to the slurm.conf file).


> On Apr 16, 2017, at 7:12 AM, Mahmood Naderan  > wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Currently, Torque is running on our cluster. I want to know, is it possible 
> to install Slurm, create some test partitions, submit some test jobs and be 
> sure that it is working while Torque is running?
> Then we are able to tell the users to use Slurm scripts.  Any feedback is 
> welcomed.
> 
> Regards,
> Mahmood
> 
>