<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 6:36 PM Brian Andrus <<a href="mailto:toomuchit@gmail.com">toomuchit@gmail.com</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">Also, a plug for support contracts. I have been doing slurm for a very <br>
long while, but always encourage my clients to get a support contract. <br>
That is how SchedMD stays alive and we are able to have such a good <br>
piece of software. I see the cloud providers starting to build tools <br>
that will eventually obsolesce slurm for the cloud. I worry that there <br>
won't be enough paying customers for Tim to keep things running as well <br>
as he has. I'm pretty sure most folks that use slurm for any period of <br>
time has received more value that a small support contract would be.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We considered this but we have a very small cluster. And when I reached out for a quote, I was told "SchedMD has a MIN node count of 256 for $10K/yr".</div><div><br></div><div>Since we're using Bright Computing we've always had to ignore Slurm updates from yum and have to compile our own version.</div><div><br></div><div>Curious, which cloud provider scheduling tools do you see gaining traction?</div></div></div>