Priya, you could set up a cluster on Aamazon or another cloud for testing. Please have a look at this https://elasticluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
If you want to set up some virtual machines on your own laptop or server, Google for vagrant slurm There are several vagrant recipes on the net. Please keep posting - we are all very happy to help here. On Sun, 26 May 2019 at 07:43, Benson Muite <benson_mu...@emailplus.org> wrote: > > On 5/26/19 7:26 AM, Chris Samuel wrote: > > On Saturday, 25 May 2019 6:56:58 AM PDT Priya Mishra wrote: > > > >> Yes,it is a single server. I am an undergraduate student . I am doing a > >> project on job scheduling in clusters and needed slurm for the same. So > I > >> started with a single system and once I am able to run slurm > successfully > >> on one system , I will expand to include more systems. > > I suspect you're going to find this very hard without having root access > as you > > will need to ensure you have the same munge keys across all systems (as > well > > as the same usernames and UNIX UID's for them). > > > > You might find that firing up a little cluster in a set of VM's makes > life a lot > > easier for you as you'll be able to control the whole environment. > > > > All the best, > > Chris > This has been a helpful thread. In addition to virtual machines, > containers (such as Singularity) may be a possible way to setup your own > SLURM installation. > >
