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Head Node (Controller)<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Manages job scheduling and resource allocation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Runs Slurm Controller Daemon (`slurmctld`).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Compute Nodes<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Execute computational tasks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Run Slurm Node Daemon (`slurmd`).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Configured for CPUs, GPUs, or specialized hardware.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Networking<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>High-speed interconnect like Infiniband or Ethernet.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Ensures fast communication between nodes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Storage<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Centralized storage like NFS, Lustre, or BeeGFS.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Provides shared file access for all nodes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Authentication<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Use Munge for secure communication between Slurm components.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Scheduler<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Slurm for job scheduling and resource management.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Configured with partitions and node definitions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Resource Management<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Use cgroups to control CPU, memory, and GPU usage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Optional: ProctrackType=cgroup in Slurm.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Parallel File System (Optional)<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>High-performance shared storage for parallel workloads.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Examples: Lustre, GPFS.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Interconnect Libraries<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>MPI (Message Passing Interface) for distributed computing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Install libraries like OpenMPI or MPICH.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Monitoring and Debugging Tools<\/h2>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Ganglia for resource monitoring.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022<\/span> <\/span>Enable verbose logging in Slurm for debugging.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Head Node (Controller) \u2022 Manages job scheduling and resource allocation. \u2022 Runs Slurm Controller Daemon (`slurmctld`). Compute Nodes \u2022 Execute computational tasks. \u2022 Run Slurm Node Daemon (`slurmd`). \u2022 Configured for CPUs, GPUs, or specialized hardware. Networking \u2022 High-speed interconnect like Infiniband or Ethernet. \u2022 Ensures fast communication between nodes. Storage \u2022 Centralized storage like NFS, Lustre, or BeeGFS. \u2022 Provides shared file access for all nodes. Authentication \u2022 UseRead More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}