I don't know about it's use for cloud services, but our supercomputers at TACC that run SLURM are made entirely of commodity parts. In most cases these days, there's very little difference between commodity clusters and supercomputers.
Best, Bill. -- Bill Barth, Ph.D., Director, HPC [email protected] | Phone: (512) 232-7069 Office: ROC 1.435 | Fax: (512) 475-9445 On 5/14/15, 10:57 AM, "Pradeep Bisht" <[email protected]> wrote: >[Resending as I don't see my message in the archives] > Show > message history > > >I'm looking at SLURM and it seems to have all the features that my >application needs. I have a very basic question. I see that SLURM is very >popular for supercomputer clusters. However, > I couldn't find any use scenarios where it is being used on commodity >Linux machines like the one being in cloud data centers. I'm a cloud >service provider with EC2 instances in Amazon cloud. Do you think SLURM >is suitable for this kind of infrastructure ? > I'm just concerned that the overhead might be too high for commodity >machines and may be SLURM is designed for supercomputers only ? > > >Can somebody please also cite some companies name who are using SLURM for >cloud based services ? > > > > >Thank you > >
