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Commit 15d570fa authored by Morris Jette's avatar Morris Jette
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Clarify Slurm use with IBM PE

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......@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ software. You should be familiar with the SLURM's mode of operation on Linux
clusters before studying the relatively few differences in operation on systems
with PE, which are described in this document.</p>
<p>Note that Slurm is designed to be a replacement for IBM's LoadLeveler.
They are not designed to concurrently schedule resources.
Slurm provides manages network resources and provides the POE command with
a library that emulates LoadLeveler functionality.</p>
<h2><a name="user">User Tools</a></h2>
<p>The normal set of SLURM user tools: srun, scancel, sinfo, squeue, scontrol,
......@@ -474,7 +479,10 @@ on a cluster, however each scheduler must be configured to manage different
compute nodes (e.g. LoadLeveler can manage compute nodes "tux[1-8]" and SLURM
can manage compute nodes "tux[9-16]" on the same cluster). In addition, the
/etc/poe.limits file on each node must identify the MP_PE_RMLIB appropriate
for that node (e.g. IBM's or SLURM's libpermapi.so)</p>
for that node (e.g. IBM's or SLURM's libpermapi.so).
If Slurm and LoadLeveler are configured to simultaneously manage the same
nodes, you should expect both resource managers to try assigning the same
resources. This will result in job failures.</p>
<p>The srun command uses the <b>launch/poe</b> plugin to launch the poe program.
Then poe uses the <b>launch/slurm</b> plugin to launch the "pmd" process on the
......@@ -506,6 +514,6 @@ startsrc -s pnsd -a -D
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<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 31 January 2013</p></td>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 11 March 2013</p></td>
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