Re: [slurm-users] Slurm Upgrade Philosophy?

2020-12-24 Thread Chris Samuel
On 24/12/20 6:24 am, Paul Edmon wrote: We then have a test cluster that we install the release on a run a few test jobs to make sure things are working, usually MPI jobs as they tend to hit most of the features of the scheduler. One thing I meant to mention last night was that we use Reframe

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm Upgrade Philosophy?

2020-12-24 Thread Paul Edmon
We are the same way, though we tend to keep pace with minor releases.  We typically wait until the .1 release of a new major release before considering upgrade so that many of the bugs are worked out.  We then have a test cluster that we install the release on a run a few test jobs to make

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm Upgrade Philosophy?

2020-12-23 Thread Chris Samuel
On Friday, 18 December 2020 10:10:19 AM PST Jason Simms wrote: > Thanks to several helpful members on this list, I think I have a much better > handle on how to upgrade Slurm. Now my question is, do most of you upgrade > with each major release? We do, though not immediately and not without a

Re: [slurm-users] Slurm Upgrade Philosophy?

2020-12-18 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hi Jason, Ultimately each site decides how/why to do it; in my case I tend to do big "forklift upgrades", so I'm running 18.08 on the current cluster and will go to latest SLURM for my next cluster build. But you may have good reasons to upgrade slurm more often on your existing cluster. I

[slurm-users] Slurm Upgrade Philosophy?

2020-12-18 Thread Jason Simms
Hello all, Thanks to several helpful members on this list, I think I have a much better handle on how to upgrade Slurm. Now my question is, do most of you upgrade with each major release? I recognize that, normally, if something is working well, then don't upgrade it! In our case, we're running