[slurm-users] Setup for backup slurmctld

[Brian Andrus]

I would say so.

Certainly, if you have many nodes and/or many jobs being submitted, you 
will see an impact, but in my experience comparing Slurm to SGE, Slurm 
has much less overhead to cause as much impact.

Brian Andrus


On 2/26/2020 1:05 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 12:56pm, Brian Andrus wrote
>
>> Any shared filesystem that both systems can get to will work.
>>
>> I have done it with NFS, Gluster, appliances (NetApp), etc.
>>
>> Being in a separate datacenter is fine, but you will see some 
>> latency, which you likely already addressed if you are pysically 
>> splitting a network like that.
>
> Sure, NFS would be the default.  I was just worried about the 
> performance. We tried putting the queue directory on NFS with our SGE 
> shadow master config, and definitely saw a job throughput/scheduling 
> performance hit. Would the hit be less with slurm?
>