Dear Experts, I know there are many HPC (high performance computing) experts on this list. I'd like to ask your advise. Almost two decades ago I chose to go with OpenPBS (turned down condor and other alternatives for whatever reason) for clusters and number crunchers I support for the Department at the university. It turned out to be not bad, long lived choice. At some point I smoothly migrated to torque which was advertised as open source project (based on PBS, but it was much less hassle to compile...). Torque ceased to be open source two years ago, it is proprietary now. At some point I have to migrate away from torque for this reason. One of the ways would be to switch (back) to open source PBS Pro (pbspro.org). I wonder what other options experts would recommend. Hopefully, not too far from torque (or PBS) from user prospective. Thanks a lot for all your advises! Valeri -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 11:28:13AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:> I wonder what other options experts would recommend. Hopefully, not too far > from torque (or PBS) from user prospective.My workplace switched from Torque (with moab as the scheduler) to Slurm (https://slurm.schedmd.com/) for our university HPC. It's not a drop-in replacement but it is easily on par with Torque/OpenPBS features, and its scheduler is quite good. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
Dear Valeri Slurm (https://slurm.schedmd.com/) is also reasonable. You might also take a look at Cobalt (https://xgitlab.cels.anl.gov/aig-public/cobalt) which is not developed too far from you. Benson
Hey Valeri - IIRC, midway (and maybe midway2?) use slurm for job scheduling. I don't know how many of your faculty use both your nodes and midway, but maybe consolidating on to a single scheduler would be easier for them? (also, it's been a while ... hi! ? ) Richard -----Original Message----- From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> On Behalf Of Valeri Galtsev Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 10:28 To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] HPC question: torques replacement Dear Experts, I know there are many HPC (high performance computing) experts on this list. I'd like to ask your advise. Almost two decades ago I chose to go with OpenPBS (turned down condor and other alternatives for whatever reason) for clusters and number crunchers I support for the Department at the university. It turned out to be not bad, long lived choice. At some point I smoothly migrated to torque which was advertised as open source project (based on PBS, but it was much less hassle to compile...). Torque ceased to be open source two years ago, it is proprietary now. At some point I have to migrate away from torque for this reason. One of the ways would be to switch (back) to open source PBS Pro (pbspro.org). I wonder what other options experts would recommend. Hopefully, not too far from torque (or PBS) from user prospective. Thanks a lot for all your advises! Valeri -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Valeri, May also be of interest: http://oar.imag.fr/ Benson On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, at 7:48 PM, Dahringer, Richard wrote:> Hey Valeri - > IIRC, midway (and maybe midway2?) use slurm for job scheduling. I > don't know how many of your faculty use both your nodes and midway, but > maybe consolidating on to a single scheduler would be easier for them? > > (also, it's been a while ... hi! ? ) > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> On Behalf Of Valeri Galtsev > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 10:28 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] HPC question: torques replacement > > Dear Experts, > > I know there are many HPC (high performance computing) experts on this > list. I'd like to ask your advise. > > Almost two decades ago I chose to go with OpenPBS (turned down condor > and other alternatives for whatever reason) for clusters and number > crunchers I support for the Department at the university. It turned out > to be not bad, long lived choice. At some point I smoothly migrated to > torque which was advertised as open source project (based on PBS, but > it was much less hassle to compile...). Torque ceased to be open source > two years ago, it is proprietary now. At some point I have to migrate > away from torque for this reason. One of the ways would be to switch > (back) to open source PBS Pro (pbspro.org). > > I wonder what other options experts would recommend. Hopefully, not too > far from torque (or PBS) from user prospective. > > Thanks a lot for all your advises! > > Valeri > -- > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for > Cosmological Physics University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >