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Remove description of slurm 1.0 updates, too dated.

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<h2>Index</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#10">SLURM Version 1.0, January 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="#11">SLURM Version 1.1, May 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="#12">SLURM Version 1.2, February 2007</a></li>
<li><a href="#13">SLURM Version 1.3 and beyond</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="10">Major Updates in SLURM Version 1.0</a></h2>
<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 a single
socket instead of distinct sockets for each task. This improves performance
and scalability.</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)
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>
<p>SLURM Version 1.1 became available in May 2006.
Major enhancements include:
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<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 22 March 2007</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 1 May 2007</p>
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