[slurm-users] Submitting jobs via SystemD

[Sid Young]

Whats wrong with just using the tools as is?


Sid Young


On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 5:54 AM Ondrej Valousek <ondrej.valousek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi list,
> I am wondering if there is a plugin allowing to submit jobs via SystemD
> (I.e. using systemd-run) on exec nodes.
>
> I have actually modified SGE sources to offer this option (available at
> https://github.com/daimh/sge) and it works quite well.
>
> The advantages are:
> - we let systemd to track and manage job (jobs are started as services) so
> do not have to do it ourselves.
> - we use systemd to get job stats (cpu/mem usage etc)
> - we let systemd to manage cgroups for us (which means cgroups v2 can be
> nicely supported this way)
>
> Disadvantages:
> - it expects SystemD (I.e. Linux only) is installed on all exec clients
> - minimal version we can live with is SystemD 230, for best results 240 or
> newer.
>
> Anyone interested?
> Cheers,
> Ondrej
>
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