Re: [slurm-users] Setup for backup slurmctld

2020-02-29 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 12:48:26 PM PST Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > We're planning the migration of our moderately sized cluster (~400 nodes, > 40K jobs/day) from SGE to slurm. We'd very much like to have a backup > slurmctld, and it'd be even better if our backup slurmctld could be in a

Re: [slurm-users] Setup for backup slurmctld

2020-02-26 Thread Brian Andrus
I would say so. Certainly, if you have many nodes and/or many jobs being submitted, you will see an impact, but in my experience comparing Slurm to SGE, Slurm has much less overhead to cause as much impact. Brian Andrus On 2/26/2020 1:05 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 a

Re: [slurm-users] Setup for backup slurmctld

2020-02-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 12:56pm, Brian Andrus wrote Any shared filesystem that both systems can get to will work. I have done it with NFS, Gluster, appliances (NetApp), etc. Being in a separate datacenter is fine, but you will see some latency, which you likely already addressed if you are pys

Re: [slurm-users] Setup for backup slurmctld

2020-02-26 Thread Brian Andrus
Any shared filesystem that both systems can get to will work. I have done it with NFS, Gluster, appliances (NetApp), etc. Being in a separate datacenter is fine, but you will see some latency, which you likely already addressed if you are pysically splitting a network like that. Also, very e