[slurm-users] Slurm Install on Remote System

[Benson Muite]

On 5/26/19 7:26 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 May 2019 6:56:58 AM PDT Priya Mishra wrote:
>
>> Yes,it is a single server. I am an undergraduate student . I am doing a
>> project on job scheduling in clusters and needed slurm for the same. So I
>> started with a single system and once I am able to run slurm successfully
>> on one system , I will expand to include more systems.
> I suspect you're going to find this very hard without having root access as you
> will need to ensure you have the same munge keys across all systems (as well
> as the same usernames and UNIX UID's for them).
>
> You might find that firing up a little cluster in a set of VM's makes life a lot
> easier for you as you'll be able to control the whole environment.
>
> All the best,
> Chris
This has been a helpful thread. In addition to virtual machines, 
containers (such as Singularity) may be a possible way to setup your own 
SLURM installation.