+1 for local installs. We build the RPMs and put them in a local repo (Scientific Linux 6), and so installing/upgrading via Salt/Puppet/Ansible etc is quite scalable.
It works for us, but of course YMMV. Paddy On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 06:46:46PM -0700, Paul Edmon wrote: > > Yeah, we've been running CentOS 6 and slurm in this fashion for > about a year and a half on about a thousand machines and haven't > really had a problem with this. Though I don't know if this method > scales indefinitely. We just have a symlink back to our conf from > /etc/slurm/slurm.conf. We then control the version via RPM > installs. > > -Paul Edmon- > > On 3/24/2015 4:22 PM, Jason Bacon wrote: > > > > > >I ran one of our CentOS clusters this way for about a year and > >found it to be more trouble than it was worth. > > > >I recently reconfigured it to run all system services from local > >disks so that nodes are as independent of each other as possible. > >Assuming you have ssh keys on all the nodes, syncing slurm.conf > >and other files is a snap using a simple shell script. We only > >use NFS for data files and user applications at this point. > > > >Of course, if your compute nodes don't have local disks, that's > >another story. > > > > Jason > > > >On 03/24/15 14:42, Jeff Layton wrote: > >> > >>Good afternoon, > >> > >>I apologies for the newb question but I'm setting up slurm > >>for the first time in a very long time. I've got a small cluster > >>of a master node and 4 compute nodes. I'd like to install > >>slurm on an NFS file system that is exported from the master > >>node and mounted on the compute nodes. I've been reading > >>a bit about this but does anyone have recommendations on > >>what to watch out for? > >> > >>Thanks! > >> > >>Jeff > -- Paddy Doyle Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Phone: +353-1-896-3725 http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/
