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<p>I've definitely been there with the minimum cost issue. One thing
I have done personally is start attending SLUG. Now I can give
back and learn more in the process. That may be an option to
pitch, iterating the value you receive from open source software
as part of the ROI.</p>
<p>Interestingly, I have been able to deploy completely to cloud
using only slurm. It has the ability to integrate into any cloud
cli, so nothing else has been needed. Just for the heck of it, I
am thinking of integrating it into Terraform, although not
necessary.</p>
<p>Brian Andrus<br>
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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
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>Curious, which cloud provider scheduling tools do you see
gaining traction?</div>
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