From 2286842c0d0bb9c8bddde153cc94a8f496d2444d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moe Jette <jette1@llnl.gov> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:11:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note recent changes in SLURM system and plans for next release. --- doc/html/news.html | 29 +++++++++++++++++++---------- doc/html/overview.html | 15 ++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/html/news.html b/doc/html/news.html index 19d9572a1d5..2487caa5c70 100644 --- a/doc/html/news.html +++ b/doc/html/news.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, SLURM, resource management, Linux clusters, high-performance computing, Livermore Computing"> <meta name="LLNLRandR" content="UCRL-WEB-204324"> -<meta name="LLNLRandRdate" content="26 August 2004"> +<meta name="LLNLRandRdate" content="11 October 2004"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="description" content="Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management"> <meta name="copyright" @@ -73,28 +73,38 @@ For a complete list of enhancements in SLURM version 0.3, please see the NEWS file with the code distribution.</p> <h3>Major Updates in SLURM Version 0.4</h3> -<p>We expect to make SLURM Version 0.4 available in December 2004. +<p>We expect to make SLURM Version 0.4 available in Deccember 2004. Major enhancements include: <ul> <li>Support for <a href="http://www.platform.com/">Load Sharing Facility (LSF)</a></li> <li>Support for the IBM AIX operating system.</li> -<li>Support for the IBM Federation switch.</li> <li>Support for the IBM <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/">IBM BlueGene</a> system.</li> -<li>Checkpoint plugin added with support for IBM system checkpoint.</li> -<li>I/O streams for all tasks on a node are transmitted through one pair of sockets -instead of distinct sockets for each task. This improves performance and scalability.</li> <li>Support for dependent jobs.</li> <li>Support for job account numbers.</li> +<li>Add "reason" field to show what pending jobs are waiting for.</li> +<li>New graphical user interface, smap.</li> +</ul> + +<h3>Major Updates in SLURM Version 0.5</h3> +<p>We expect to make SLURM Version 0.5 available in June 2005. +Major enhancements include: +<ul> +<li>Add support for <a href="http://www.myri.com/scs/">MPICH-GM</a> +(<a href="http:www.myri.com/">Myricom's</a> version of MPI).</li> +<li>Support for the IBM Federation switch.</li> +<li>Checkpoint plugin added with support for IBM system checkpoint.</li> +<li>I/O streams for all tasks on a node are transmitted through one pair of sockets +instead of distinct sockets for each task. This improves performance and scalability.</li> <li>Support for task communication/synchronization primitives.</li> </ul> -<h3>Major Updates in SLURM Version 0.5 and beyond</h3> + +<h3>Major Updates in SLURM Version 0.6 and beyond</h3> <p> Detailed plans for release dates and contents of future SLURM releases have not been finalized. Anyone desiring to perform SLURM development should notify <a href="mailto:slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov">slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a> to coordinate activies. Future development plans includes: <ul> -<li>Support for the IBM Federation switch.</li> <li>Support of various MPI types via a plugin mechanism.</li> <li>Permit resource allocations (jobs) to change size.</li> <li>Manage consumable resources on a per-node (e.g,. memory, disk space) @@ -103,7 +113,6 @@ and system-wide basis (e.g., licenses).</li> <li>Enforce CPU and memory limits by job.</li> <li>Perform job accounting (record resource utilization).</li> <li>Add support for InfiniBand switch.</li> -<li>Develop graphical user interfaces.</li> <li>Support <b>srun</b> options within shell script.</li> <li>Optionally notify users via email of job state changes.</li> <li>Convert state save functions to plugins for use of various databases.</li> @@ -115,7 +124,7 @@ and system-wide basis (e.g., licenses).</li> <td colspan="3"><hr> <p>For information about this page, contact <a href="mailto:slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov">slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/"><img align=middle src="lll.gif" width="32" height="32" border="0"></a></p> <p class="footer">UCRL-WEB-204324<br> -Last modified 26 August 2004</p></td> +Last modified 11 October 2004</p></td> </tr> </table> </td> diff --git a/doc/html/overview.html b/doc/html/overview.html index 6ca10df79d2..70eed3a3f48 100644 --- a/doc/html/overview.html +++ b/doc/html/overview.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, SLURM, resource management, Linux clusters, high-performance computing, Livermore Computing"> <meta name="LLNLRandR" content="UCRL-WEB-204324"> -<meta name="LLNLRandRdate" content="2 May 2004"> +<meta name="LLNLRandRdate" content="11 October 2004"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="description" content="Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management"> <meta name="copyright" @@ -72,13 +72,18 @@ infrastructure. These plugins presently include: <ul> <li>Authentication of communications: <a href="http://www.theether.org/authd/">authd</a>, <a href="ftp://ftp.llnl.gov/pub/linux/munge/">munge</a>, or none (default).</li> -<li>Job logging: text file or none (default).</li> +<li>Checkpoint: AIX (under development) or none.</li> +<li>Job logging: text file, arbitrary script, or none (default).</li> +<li>Node selection: Blue Gene (a 3-D torus interconnect) or linear.</li> <li>Scheduler: <a href="http://supercluster.org/maui">The Maui Scheduler</a>, backfill, or FIFO (default).</li> -<li>Switch or interconnect: <a href="http://www.quadrics.com/">Quadrics</a> Elan3 -or Elan4 or none (actually means nothing requiring special handling, default).</li> +<li>Switch or interconnect: <a href="http://www.quadrics.com/">Quadrics</a> (Elan3 +or Elan4) or none (actually means nothing requiring special handling, such +as ethernet, default).</li> </ul> + <p class="footer"><a href="#top">top</a></p> + <h3>Configurability</h3> <p>Node state monitored include: count of processors, size of real memory, size of temporary disk space, and state (UP, DOWN, etc.). Additional node information @@ -137,7 +142,7 @@ excellent. The throughput rate of simple 2000 task jobs across 1000 nodes is ove <td colspan="3"><hr> <p>For information about this page, contact <a href="mailto:slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov">slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/"><img align=middle src="lll.gif" width="32" height="32" border="0"></a></p> <p class="footer">UCRL-WEB-204324<br> -Last modified 2 May 2004</p></td> +Last modified 11 October 2004</p></td> </tr> </table> </td> -- GitLab