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<p class="MsoNormal">Our current cluster is running Centos 7.9 and we are anticipating setting up a new cluster by the end of the year that will most likely be running one of the Centos 8.x alternatives (Rocky/Alma/???) with the latest version of Slurm.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our team is investigating whether it would be appropriate to run the Slurm server for this upcoming cluster as a container instance. By a server, we mean slurmctld and slurmdbd, with the database as a separate system/container.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is anyone here doing this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If so, are there any advantages to doing so?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What containerization solution / platform are you using? We would most likely be using Kubernetes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What sort of challenges have you experienced and how did you solve them?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are there any best practices that you would recommend?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are there any other HPC institutions you know are doing this that we should reach out to ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Lee Reynolds</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Senior RC Architect</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">RTO Research Computing</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Arizona State University</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tempe, AZ 85287-5206</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">p: </span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="tel:480-965-9460"><span style="color:#8C1D40">480-965-9460</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">email: </span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:lee.reynolds@asu.edu"><span style="color:#8C1D40">lee.reynolds@asu.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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