Re: [slurm-users] Fwd: Problem installing slurm on computer cluster

2017-11-16 Thread Philip Kovacs
>Forgive me for saying this. I do have a bit of experience in building HPC >systems.>Distro supplied software packages have improved a lot over the >years.>But they do tend to be out of date compared to the latest versions of >(say) Slurm. It is actually a great deal of work to package Slurm for

Re: [slurm-users] Fwd: Problem installing slurm on computer cluster

2017-11-16 Thread Bruno Santos
Thank you everyone. I seem to have sorted and it was indeed some system config left. And John yes I agree with you and good to see the strategy of having them installed on a network share is the one I was thinking of following. Will probably keep a centralized apt-cache to make sure all the libs in

Re: [slurm-users] Fwd: Problem installing slurm on computer cluster

2017-11-16 Thread John Hearns
Forgive me for saying this. I do have a bit of experience in building HPC systems. Distro supplied software packages have improved a lot over the years. But they do tend to be out of date compared to the latest versions of (say) Slurm. I really would say you should consider downloading and installi

Re: [slurm-users] Fwd: Problem installing slurm on computer cluster

2017-11-16 Thread E V
You may need to install a systemd override file if you have some of the system config left over, it has the path set to /usr/bin/. Example for slurmd, slurmctld and slurmdbd are the same just changing the names: cat /etc/systemd/system/slurmd.service.d/override.conf [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=

[slurm-users] Fwd: Problem installing slurm on computer cluster

2017-11-15 Thread Bruno Santos
Hi everyone, I am currently trying to install slurm to serve as a job scheduler for a research institute. I have installed Debian stretch and initially installed and configured slurm from the repos. HoweverI then tried to play with a different server serving as node and realized that due to the di