Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management or Slurm Workload Manager is a free and open-source job scheduler for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems, used by many of the world’s High-Performance Computing Systems.
Using Slurm for your Research
The Slurm Workload Manager provides three key functions:
- allocating access to resources or compute nodes to users for the duration of the job so they can perform work,
- providing a framework for starting, executing, and monitoring parallel jobs such on a set of allocated nodes, and
- streamlining and optimizing access to resources by managing a queue of pending jobs.
Slurm is the workload manager on about 60% of the TOP500 supercomputers.
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Quick Start Guild: https://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart.html