Thank you Bill. On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Bill Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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 > > > > >
