I think they are basically talking about using Slurm as a way to schedule time on a data transfer node, or at least that’s what I’ve seen previously. You will still need a software package like rsync or one of its relatives/parallel derivatives, but Slurm would be a way to schedule the time and bandwidth fairly.

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On Jun 6, 2025, at 00:31, Ratnasamy, Fritz via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> wrote:


Hi,

  We were told by our hardware provider that large datasets copied from NFS location to GPFS could be conducted via slurm to monitor the transfer. I am not sure of this works as I could not find much online. Otherwise apart from globus and rsync, what would you suggest as a tool/command to copy files from on a cluster between NFS and GPFS?
Best,

Fritz Ratnasamy
Data Scientist
Information Technology



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