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As the grid computing farm are increasing in size in terms of nodes but even more in terms of CPU slots available, it become of great interest to have a scheduler solution that could scale up to tens of thousands of CPU slots and hundreds of nodes. In order to try to keep the Total Cost of Ownership as low as possible it will be preferred to have an easy to use and open source solution. SLURM is able to fulfil all those requirements and it looks promising also in terms of community that is supporting it, as it is used in several of the TOP500 supercomputing. For this reason we deeply tested the SLURM batch system in order to prove if it could be a suitable solution. In the work we will present the result of all the test executed on SLURM batch system and the results of the development activity carried on in order to provide the possibility to use SLURM in a grid computing environment.