On Friday, 17 June 2016 5:17:46 PM AEST Owen LaGarde wrote: > Never mind, found it in the bottom of the programmer_guide page. Yes I was > being stupid.
No you're not. Frontends are important for systems like IBM BlueGene/Q where you cannot access the compute nodes at all directly, the batch script has to launch on a frontend node (which users may not be able to access) and then srun has the job of communicating with the BGQ control system to launch the executable on the compute nodes. > "Frontend" to slurm is not at all synonymous with "frontend" in the > HPC community. I've only ever heard of frontend nodes in the way that they're used on BGQ; what you are calling frontend nodes get called login nodes around here. :-) 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
