[slurm-users] Slurm version 20.02.0 is now available

[Dean Schulze]

Hi Tim,

I'm very interested in the "configless" setup for slurm.  Is the setup for
configless documented somewhere?

Dean Schulze
303.909.3245  mobile

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:57 AM Tim Wickberg <tim at schedmd.com> wrote:

> After 9 months of development and testing we are pleased to announce the
> availability of Slurm version 20.02.0!
>
> Downloads are available from https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php.
>
> Highlights of the 20.02 release include:
>
> - A "configless" method of deploying Slurm within the cluster, in which
> the slurmd and user commands can use DNS SRV records to locate the
> slurmctld host and automatically download the relevant configuration files.
>
> - A new "auth/jwt" authentication mechanism using JWT, which can help
> integrate untrusted external systems into the cluster.
>
> - A new "slurmrestd" command/daemon which translates a new Slurm REST
> API into the underlying libslurm calls.
>
> - Packaging fixes for RHEL8 distributions.
>
> - Significant performance improvements to the backfill scheduler, as
> well as to string construction and processing.
>
> Thank you to all customers, partners, and community members who
> contributed to this release.
>
> As with past releases, the documentation available at
> https://slurm.schedmd.com has been updated to the 20.02 release. Past
> versions are available in the archive. This release also marks the end
> of support for the 18.08 release. The 19.05 release will remain
> supported up until the 20.11 release in November, but will not see as
> frequent updates, and bug-fixes will be targeted for the 20.02
> maintenance releases going forward.
>
> --
> Tim Wickberg
> Chief Technology Officer, SchedMD
> Commercial Slurm Development and Support
>
>
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