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Note all major updates in slurm v1.0.

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<h2><a name="10">Major Updates in SLURM Version 1.0</a></h2>
<p>We expect to make SLURM Version 1.0 available in January 2006.
<p>SLURM Version 1.0 became available in January 2006.
Major enhancements include:
<ul>
<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
<li>I/O streams for all tasks on a node are transmitted through a single
socket instead of distinct sockets for each task. This improves performance
and scalability.</li>
<li>Resource management supported to the core level on a node.</li>
<li>Task affinity for binding tasks to CPUs.</li>
<li>Nodes can be in multiple partitions, providing more flexibility in
managing the SLURM partitions as queues.</li>
<li>Support for task communication/synchronization primitives (PMI).</li>
<li>E-mail notification on job state changes.</li>
<li>Better control over task distribution.</li>
<li>Support for task communication/synchronization primitives (PMI)
as required by MPICH2.</li>
<li>E-mail notification option on job state changes.</li>
<li>Better control over task distribution (hostfile support).</li>
<li>User control of job prioritization via <i>nice</i> option.</li>
<li>Web-based <a href="configurator.html">configuration tool</a>.</li>
<li>Support to preempt/resume jobs.</li>
<li>Support for deferred job initiation time specification.</li>
<li>Compute node job shepherd now exec'ed program, <i>slurmstepd</i>.
This eliminates use of SysV shared memory and some problems
in support of the Native Posix Thread Library.</li>
<li>Several bug fixes in interface with Maui Scheduler.</li>
<li>For Blue Gene systems: support for small bglblocks.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="11">Major Updates in SLURM Version 1.1</a></h2>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 27 December 2005</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 14 January 2006</p>
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