<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Jason,</div><div><br></div>Ultimately each site decides how/why to do it; in my case I tend to do big "forklift upgrades", so I'm running 18.08 on the current cluster and will go to latest SLURM for my next cluster build. But you may have good reasons to upgrade slurm more often on your existing cluster. I don't use any of the advanced features.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Alex</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:13 AM Jason Simms <<a href="mailto:simmsj@lafayette.edu">simmsj@lafayette.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>Thanks to several helpful members on this list, I think I have a much better handle on how to upgrade Slurm. Now my question is, do most of you upgrade with each major release?</div><div><br></div><div>I recognize that, normally, if something is working well, then don't upgrade it! In our case, we're running 20.02, and it seems to be working well for us. The notes for 20.11 don't indicate any "must have" features for our use cases, but I'm still new to Slurm, so maybe there is a hidden benefit I can't immediately see.</div><div><br></div><div>Given that, I would normally not consider upgrading. But as I understand it, you cannot upgrade more than two major releases back, so if I skip this one, I'd have to upgrade to (presumably) 21.08, or else I'd have to "double upgrade" if, e.g., I wanted to go from 20.02 to 22.05.</div><div><br></div><div>To prevent that, do most people try to stay within the most recent two versions? Or do you go as long as you possibly can with your existing version, upgrading only if you absolutely must?</div><div><br></div><div>Warmest regards,</div><div>Jason<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(130,36,51)"><font face="Century Gothic"><b>Jason L. Simms, Ph.D., M.P.H.</b></font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;margin:0px"><font face="Century Gothic"><span>Manager of Research and High-Performance Computing</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;margin:0px"><font face="Century Gothic"><span>XSEDE Campus Champion<br></span><span style="color:gray">Lafayette College<br>Information Technology Services<br>710 Sullivan Rd | Easton, PA 18042<br>Office: 112 Skillman Library<br>p: (610) 330-5632</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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