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Presentations from SC24, November 24

Slinky: The Missing Link Between Slurm and Kubernetes
Skyler Malinowski & Tim Wickberg, SchedMD
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2024

ORNL Site Report & Feature Discussion
Matt Ezell and Paul Peltz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Bringing in Robust, Memory-Driven Affinity to Slurm
Edgar A. León, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Step Management Enhancements
Felip Moll, Oriol Vilarrubí, and Brian Christiansen, SchedMD

The Evolution of Slurm at CSCS: From Monolithic Service to Multi-tenant vService
Gennaro Oliva, CSCS

Slinky – Slurm Operator
Skyler Malinowski, Alan Mutschelknaus, and Marlow Warnicke, SchedMD

TrailblazingTurtle: A Comprehensive Web Portal for Maximizing HPC Resource Utilization
Simon Guilbault, Université Laval

Field Notes 8: How to Make the Most of Slurm, and Avoid Common Issues
Alejandro Sánchez, SchedMD

Enabling Event-Driven Workflows With AWS and the Slurm API
Cory Lueninghoener (Sandia National Laboratory), Lowell Wofford (AWS)

Gaining More Control Over Node Scheduling with the Topology/Block Plugin
Vasileios Karakasis, Felix Abecassis, Craig Tierney, and Douglas Wightman, NVIDIA

Improving Job Throughput in HPC with Adaptive Time Limit Management
Thomas Jakobsche, University of Basel

Slinky – Slurm Bridge
Skyler Malinowski, Alan Mutschelknaus, and Marlow Warnicke, SchedMD

Slurm Wiki and Tools – a Niflheim site report
Dr. Ole Helm Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Maximizing HPC Efficiency for Ansys Simulations: Addressing Critical IT Concerns with Slurm Resource Management and Scheduling
David Clifton and Morten Loderup, Ansys

Magic Castle: Canadian HPC as a Service
Félix-Antoine Fortin, Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Presentations from SC23, November 23
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2023

Keynote: Improving Quinoa Through the Development of Genetic and Genomic Resources
David Jarvis, Brigham Young University

Never Use Slurm HA Again: Solve All Your Problems with Kubernetes
Chris Samuel and Doug Jacobsen, NERSC

Build a Flexible and Powerful High Performance Computing Foundation with Google Cloud
Volker Eyrich (Google) and Joshua Fryer (Recursion)

Field Notes 7 – How to Make the Most of Slurm and Avoid Common Issues
Jason Booth, SchedMD

Accelerating Genomics Research Machine Learning with Slurm
Willy Markuske, San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)

Site Update: Georgia Institute of Technology
Marian Zvada and Aaron Jezghani, Georgia Tech

Building Blocks in the Cloud: Scaling LEGO Engineering with AWS High-Performance Computing
Brian Skjerven and Matt Vaugh, AWS
Presentations from Dell HPC Community, September 2023
Presentations from Cray User Group, May 2023
Presentations from SC22, November 2022
Presentations from the HPC Containers Advisory Working Group, November 2022
Presentations from CNCF Research End User Group, October 2022
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2022

Field Notes 6: From the Frontlines of Slurm Support w/video
Jason Booth, SchedMD

Pathfinding Into the Clouds w/video
Ole Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

LBNL Site Report w/video
Wei Feinstein, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Burst Buffer Lua Plugin for Lustre w/video
Kota Tsuyuzaki / Rikimaru Honjo / Yusuke Kaneko / Kohei Tahara, NTT Computer and Data Science Laboratory / NTT TechnoCross Corporation
Presentations from NHR Container Workshop, December 2021
Presentations from SC21, November 2021
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2021

Field Notes 5: From the Frontlines of Slurm Support w/video
Jason Booth, SchedMD
Presentations from SC20, November 2020
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2020

Field Notes 4: From the Frontlines of Slurm Support w/video
Jason Booth, SchedMD
Presentations from PEARC HPCSYSPROS Workshop, August 2020
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2019

Technical: GPU Scheduling and the cons_tres plugin
Chad Vizino and Morris Jette, SchedMD

Site Report: Enabling and Scaling Diverse Work Loads Efficiently with Slurm
Chansup Byun et al., MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Tutorial: Slurm: Seamless Integration with Unprivileged Containers
Luke Yeager et al., NVIDIA

Technical: VMs and Containers for a Slurm-Based Development Cluster
François Daikhaté, CEA

Technical: Slurm Account Synchronization with UNIX Groups and Users
Ole Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Technical: A Fully Configurable HPC Web Portal for Managing Slurm Jobs
Patrice Calegari, Atos
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2018

Technical: Workload Management Requirements for an Interactive Computing e-Infrastructure
Sadaf Alam (CSCS) and the ICEI team (BSC, CEA, CINECA, CSCS, Jülich)

Technical: Slurm in a Container Only World – Are We Crazy?
Paul Peltz and Lowell Wofford (LANL)

Technical: Kraken – A Stateful Approach to Cluster Management
Paul Peltz and Lowell Wofford (LANL)

Technical: A Declarative Programming Style Job Submission Filter
Douglas Jacobsen, NERSC

Technical: Generalized Hypercube (GHC) – A Topology Plugin
M. Clayer and A. Faure, Atos

Technical: Keeping Accounts Consistent Across Clusters Using LDAP and YAML
Christian Clémonçon, Ewan Roche, Ricardo Silva (EPFL)

Technical: Real-Time Job Monitoring Using an Extended slurmctld Generic Plugin – Introducing the Plugin Architecture SPACE
Mike Arnhold, Ulf Markwardt, and Danny Rotscher (Dresden)

Technical: Scheduling by Trackable Resource (cons_tres)
Morris Jette and Dominik Bartkiewicz, SchedMD

Technical: Layout for Checkpoint Restart on Specialized Blades
Bill Brophy, Martin Perry, Doug Parisek, and Steve Mehlberg (Atos)

Site Report: Colliding High Energy Physics with HPC, Cloud, and Parallel Filesystems
Carolina Lindqvist, Pablo Llopis, and Nils Høimyr (CERN)

Technical: Slurm Simulator Improvements and Evaluation
Marco D’Amico, Ana Jokanovic, Julita Corbalan (BSC)

Technical: Workload Scheduling and Power Management
Morris Jette and Alejandro Sanchez, SchedMD

Technical: Field Notes Mark 2: Random Musings From Under a New Hat
Tim Wickberg, SchedMD
Presentations from Slurm Booth and Birds of a Feather, SC17, November 2017

Booth: From Moab to Slurm: 12 HPC Systems in 2 Months
Paul Peltz, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2017

Keynote: Supernova Cosmology & Supercomputing
Alex Kim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Technical: SLURMFS – Resource Manager File System for Slurm
Steven Senator, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Technical: Utilizing Slurm and Passive Nagios Plugins for Scalable KNL Compute Node Monitoring
Tony Quan and Basil Lalli, NERSC/LBNL

Technical: cli_filter – command line filtration, manipulation, and introspection of job submissions
Douglas Jacobsen, NERSC

Technical: Slurm – Some Slightly Unconventional Use Cases
Chris Hill (MIT), Rajul Kumar (Northeastern), Evan Weinberg and Naved Ansari (BU), Tim Donahue

Technical: Managing Diversity in Complex Workloads in a Complex Environment
Nicholas Cardo, CSCS

Technical: SELinux policy for Slurm
Gilles Wiber and Mathieu Blanc (CEA), M’hamed Bouaziz and Liana Bozga (Atos)

Site Report: From Moab to Slurm: 12 HPC Systems in 2 Months
Peltz, Fullop, Jennings, Senator, Grunau (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Technical: Slurm Roadmap – 17.11, 18.08, and Beyond
Danny Auble, Morris Jette, Tim Wickberg (SchedMD)

Technical: Enabling web-based interactive notebooks on geographically distributed HPC resources
Alexandre Beche, EPFL

Technical: Slurm Singularity Spank Plugin
Martin Perry, Steve Mehlberg, Thomas Cadeau (Atos)

Site Report: LLSC Adoption of Slurm for Managing Diverse Resources and Workloads
Chansup Byun et al. MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Site Report: Cyfronet Site Report – Improving Slurm Usability and Monitoring
M Pawlik, J. Budzowski, L. Flis, P Lason, M. Magrys

Technical: When You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail – Checkpoint / Restart in Slurm
Manuel Rodríguez-Pascual, J.A. Moríñigo, and Rafael Mayo-García, CIEMAT
Presentations from Slurm Booth and Birds of a Feather, SC16, November 2016

Booth: Bull Slurm Related Developments, w/ Job Packs demo video
Yiannis Georgiou, Bull Atos

Booth: Transition Hangout (a.k.a. how we converted to Slurm)
Ryan Cox (BYU), Bruce Pfaff (NASA)

Booth: Expanding Serial Analysis with Slurm Arrays
Christopher Coffey, Northern Arizona University
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2016

Keynote: Computer-aided drug design for novel anti-cancer agents
Dr. Zoe Cournia (Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens)

Technical: Overview of Slurm Version 16.05
Danny Auble (SchedMD), Yiannis Georgiou (Bull)

Technical: Slurm Configuration Impact on Benchmarking
José Moríñgo, Manuel Rodríguez-Pascual, and Rafael Mayo-García, CIEMAT

Technical: Simunix, a large scale platform simulator
David Glesser and Adrien Faure, Bull Atos

Technical: Checkpoint/restart in Slurm: current status and new developments
Manuel Rodríguez-Pascual, J.A. Moríñigo, and Rafael Mayo-García, CIEMAT

Technical: Job Packs – A New Slurm Feature for Enhanced Support of Heterogeneous Resources
Andry Razafinjatovo, Martin Perry, and Yiannis Georgiou (Bull Atos), Matthieu Hautreux (CEA)

Technical: Improving system utilization under strict power budget using the layouts
Dineshkumar Rajagopal, Yiannis Georgiou, and David Glesser, Bull Atos

Technical: High definition power and energy monitoring support
Thomas Cadeau and Yiannis Georgiou, Bull Atos

Technical: Federated Cluster Scheduling
Dominik Bartkiewicz and Brian Christiansen, SchedMD
Presentations from Slurm Booth and Birds of a Feather, SC15, November 2015

Booth: Never Port Your Code Again – Docker Functionality with Shifter using Slurm
Shane Canon, NERSC

BOF: Improving Backfilling by using Machine Learning to Predict Running Times in Slurm
David Glesser, Bull
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2015

Keynote: 10-Years of Computing and Atmospheric Research at NASA: 1 day per day
Bill Putnam, NASA

Technical: Overview of Slurm Version 15.08
Morris Jette and Danny Auble (SchedMD), Yiannis Georgiou (Bull)

Technical: Message Aggregation
Danny Abule (SchedMD), Yiannis Georgiou and Martin Perry (Bull)

Technical: Power Adaptive Scheduling
Yiannis Georgiou and David Glesser (Bull), Matthieu Hautreux (CEA), Denis Trystram (LIG)

Technical: Never Port Your Code Again – Docker Functionality with Shifter Using Slurm
Douglas Jacobsen, James Botts, and Shane Canon, NERSC

Technical: Increasing Cluster Thoughput with Slurm and rCUDA
Federico Silla, Technical University of Valencia Spain

Technical: Running Virtual Machines in a Slurm Batch System
Ulf Markwardt, Technische Universität Dresden

Technical: Supporting SR-IOV and IVSHMEM in MVAPICH2 on Slurm
Xiaoyi Lu, Jie Zhang, et al., The Ohio State University

Technical: Heterogeneous Resources and MPMD (aka Job Pack)
Rod Schultz and Martin Perry (Atos), Matthieu Hautreaux (CEA), Yiannis Georgiou (Atos)

Technical: Towards Multi-Objective Resource Selection
Dineshkumar Rajagopal, David Glesser, Yiannis Georgiou, Bull

Technical: Enhancing Startup Performance of Parallel Applications with Slurm
Sourav Chakraborty, et al., OSU/LLNL

Technical: Adaptable Profile-Driven TestBed (“Apt”)
Brian Haymore, The University of Utah

Technical: Using and Modifying the BSC Slurm Workload Simulator
Stephen Trofinoff and Massimo Benini, CSCS

Technical: Improving Job Scheduling by Using Machine Learning
David Glesser, Yiannis Georgiou (Bull) and Denis Trystram (LIG)

Technical: Slurm Roadmap – Versions 16.05 and Beyond
Morris Jette and Danny Auble (SchedMD), Yiannis Georgiou (Bull)

Technical: Exascale Process Management Interface
Ralph Castain (Intel), Joshua Ladd, Artem Polyakov (Mellanox), David Bigagli (SchedMD), Gary Brown (Adaptive Computing)
Presentations from Slurm Booth and Birds of a Feather, SC14, November 2014

Fair Tree: Fairshare Algorithm for Slurm
Ryan Cox and Levi Morrison (Brigham Young University)
Presentations from Slurm User Group Meeting, September 2014

Overview of Slurm Versions 14.03 and 14.11
Jacob Jenson (SchedMD) and Yiannis Georgiou (Bull)

Warewulf Node Health Check
Jacqueline Scoggins and Michael Jennings (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Slurm Process Isolation
Bill Brophy, Martin Perry and Yiannis Georgiou (Bull), Morris JEtte (SchedMD), Matthieu Hautreux (CEA)

Improving Message Forwarding Logic in Slurm
Rod Schultz, Martin Perry and Yiannis Georgiou (Bull), Matthieu Hautreux (CEA), Danny Auble and Morris Jette (SchedMD)

Tuning Slurm Scheduling for Optimal Responsiveness and Utilization
Morris Jette (SchedMD)
