简介

https://slurm.schedmd.com/overview.html

Overview
Slurm is an open source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters.
As a cluster workload manager, Slurm has three key functions. First, it allocates exclusive and/or non-exclusive access to resources (compute nodes) to users for some duration of time so they can perform work. Second, it provides a framework for starting, executing, and monitoring work (normally a parallel job) on the set of allocated nodes. Finally, it arbitrates contention for resources by managing a queue of pending work.

Architecture

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主从式架构，一个primary(slurmctld), 负责作业管理， 多个 nodes(slurmd), 负责执行计算任务， primary有一个可选的backup.

tutorial

https://slurm.schedmd.com/tutorials.html

直接看这份文档 https://www.open-mpi.org/video/slurm/Slurm_EMC_Dec2012.pdf

概念：

SLURM Entities

• Jobs: Resource allocation requests
• Job steps: Set of (typically parallel) tasks
• Partitions: Job queues with limits and access controls
• Nodes
  • NUMA boards
    • Sockets
      • Cores
        • Hyperthreads
    • Memory
    • Generic Resources (e.g. GPUs)
• Users submit jobs to a partition (queue)
• Jobs are allocated resources
• Jobs spawn steps, which are allocated resources from
  within the job's allocation

• Job States

  
  
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• Linux Job Launch Sequence

  
  
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操作

几种运行模式

• srun
  Create a job allocation (if needed) and launch
  a job step (typically an MPI job)
• salloc
  Create job allocation and start a shell to use it
  (interactive mode)
• sbatch
  Submit script for later execution (batch
  mode)
• sattach
  Connect stdin/out/err for an existing job or
  job step

其他命令

• sinfo
• squeue
• smap
• sbcast
• scanncel

MPI 支持

• Many different MPI implementations are supported:
  • MPICH1, MPICH2, MVAPICH, OpenMPI, etc.
• Many use srun to launch the tasks directly
• Some use “mpirun” or another tool within an existing SLURM allocation (they reference SLURM environment variables to determine what resources are allocated to the job)
• Details are online:
  http://www.schedmd.com/slurmdocs/mpi_guide.html

发布节奏借鉴

持续集成，定期发布可用特性

• New minor release about every 9 months
  • 2.4.x June 2012
  • 2.5.x December 2012
• Micro releases with bug fixes about once each month

构建和安装

Slurm 自带Test Suite, 安装好以后可以用来做回归验证

2019.12.14 Tutorial 看完。