16–20 Oct 2023
Canada/Pacific timezone

Migrating to Slurm from Grid Engine: Politics, Partitions and Problems

17 Oct 2023, 15:35
25m
Computing & Batch Services Computing and Batch Services

Speakers

Mr James Thorne (Diamond Light Source) Murray Collier

Description

Diamond Light Source have migrated to Slurm from Univa Grid Engine this year. We will present a summary of our challenges and solutions including:

  • Catering for multiple data centres and storage systems
  • Ensuring stakeholder buy-in
  • Supporting automated submission systems
  • Accounting
  • Auto-creation of user accounts
  • Elasticsearch accounting
  • Migrating to a new deployment and configuration system
  • Node health checks

Author

Murray Collier

Co-author

Mr James Thorne (Diamond Light Source)

Presentation materials