We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 2.5.0. This is a major upgrade from version 2.4 with changes to the Slurm commands and API. Pending and running should be preserved through the upgrade. You should plan to upgrade your slurmdbd (Slurm DataBase Daemon) before upgrading other Slurm daemons or programs. You can get the latest Slurm tar-ball from the repository: http://www.schedmd.com/#repos
We have also released version 2.4.5 with various minor bug fixes. This will likely be the final release of version 2.4. Slurm contributors recently passed the 100 count. Thanks to everyone who helped bring about this release. Highlights of version 2.5 include: * Major performance improvements for high-throughput computing. * Added srun option "--cpu-freq" to enable user control over the job's CPU frequency and thus it's power consumption. * Account for power consumption by job. * Added "boards" count to node information and "boards_per_node" to job request and job information. Optimize resource allocation to minimize number of boards used by a job. * Added support for IBM Parallel Environment (PE) including the launching of jobs using either the srun or poe command. * Add support for advanced reservation of specific cores rather than whole nodes. * Added priority/multifactor2 plugin supporting ticket based shares. * Added gres/mic plugin supporting Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) processors. * Added launch plugin to support srun interface to launch tasks using different methods like IBM's poe and Cray's aprun. * Web pages have a different appearance.
