On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 01:34:09 AM Bastian Krüger wrote: > I recently began working with a cluster that consists of 1 control node and > several computation node and it was set up a couple of years ago by someone > else. In this current setup, there is only one actual slurm installation, > which is located on the control node in /usr/local/slurm. All the other > nodes just mount that directory to their /usr/local/slurm. The only thing > that is copied between the nodes is the service startup script in > /etc/init.d.
That's almost exactly how we run all our Intel clusters and our BlueGene/Q. Works very well for us. We don't have a backup node for slurmctld. All the best, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci
