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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On <b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black">Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 2:49 PM</span>
<span style="color:black">Ole Holm Nielsen said:</span><br>
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> I recommend strongly to read the SchedMD presentations in the <br>
> [snipped] page, especially the "Field <br>
> notes" documents. The latest one is "Field Notes 4: From The Frontlines <br>
> of Slurm Support", Jason Booth, SchedMD.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Yes, thanks for the reminder.<o:p></o:p></p>
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> We upgrade Slurm continuously while the nodes are in production mode. <br>
> There's a required order of upgrading: first slurmdbd, then slurmctld, <br>
> then slurmd nodes, and finally login nodes, see<br>
> [snipped]<br>
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> The detailed upgrading commands for CentOS are in [snipped]<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Yes, in our case, it’s Ubuntu; as there is no (recent) official packaging, and keeping a PPA up is a lot of work, we are just compiling source locally now, which SchedMD (who we get support from) prefers anyhow.<o:p></o:p></p>
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