<div dir="auto">From my experience it's the question about your future sacct queries. If you are not going to list a lot of jobs that were executed long time ago vm with a few gb of ram should be fine. It depends on the numer of jobs you expect a lot of small or a few big. Nevertheless, if you think that you'll be generating a lot of reports from your sluem accounting you shold think about exporting this data to something like xdmod and quering it instead of slurmdbd.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers, </div><div dir="auto">Marcin</div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://funinit.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://funinit.wordpress.com</a> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, 19:54 Will Dennis, <<a href="mailto:wdennis@nec-labs.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">wdennis@nec-labs.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We currently have a small Slurm cluster for a research group here, where as a part of that setup, we have a Slurm DBD setup that we utilize for fair-share scheduling. The current server platform this runs on is an older Dell PowerEdge R210
system, with a single 4-core Intel Xeon X3430 CPU, and 16GB of memory. The MySQL (actually MariaDB) server running on this seems to be performing well enough for current needs.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now we are planning a (also initially small, but hopefully will grow) labs-wide Slurm cluster, and wish to have a labs-wide Slurm DBD server that will handle this new cluster, as well as any other Slurm cluster we have/will have (this includes
the existing dept-specific Slurm cluster we already have.) I have a couple of questions on this point:<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>How to size the hardware for this server? (What kind of resources does a moderate Slurm DBD server require?)<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>How to port over the existing Slurm DBD database to the newer server?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pointers to existing docs that answer these questions gratefully accepted (I looked, but didn’t find any that addressed my concerns.)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Will Dennis<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NEC Laboratories America<u></u><u></u></p>
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