If you run hundreds of jobs per day then a netbook will suffice. If you run hundreds of jobs per second then a fairly powerful processor would be good. Memory shouldn't be an issue.
Generally having a single slurmdbd at a site is best. If you have only one cluster to manage than putting slurmdbd and mysql on the same host as the slurmctld is fine. Quoting "Andrew E. Bruno" <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > We're in the processing of switching our cluster to SLURM from > TORQUE/Maui. Our cluster is around 800+ nodes and we have the > opportunity to purchase a new machine to use as the slurm management > node. > > Any suggestions on hardware requirements for the management node for > this size cluster? min RAM/CPU etc. Is it wise to run the slurmdbd > (MySQL) on a separate machine as the slurmctld? Curious if there's any > performance issues running them on the same machine. > > Thanks in advance! > > Cheers, > > --Andrew
