How To Install slurm on CentOS 8
slurm is Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm on CentOS 8.
What is slurm
Slurm is an open source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for Linux clusters. Components include machine status, partition management, job management, scheduling and accounting modules.
We can use yum or dnf to install slurm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slurm.
Install slurm on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install slurm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slurm
Install slurm on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install slurm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slurm
How To Uninstall slurm on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the slurm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slurm
slurm Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/logrotate.d/slurm
/etc/slurm
/etc/slurm/cgroup.conf
/etc/slurm/cgroup.conf.example
/etc/slurm/slurm.conf
/etc/slurm/slurm.conf.example
/run/slurm
/usr/bin/sacct
/usr/bin/sacctmgr
/usr/bin/salloc
/usr/bin/sattach
/usr/bin/sbatch
/usr/bin/sbcast
/usr/bin/scancel
/usr/bin/scontrol
/usr/bin/scrontab
/usr/bin/sdiag
/usr/bin/sh5util
/usr/bin/sinfo
/usr/bin/slurm-setuser
/usr/bin/sprio
/usr/bin/squeue
/usr/bin/sreport
/usr/bin/srun
/usr/bin/sshare
/usr/bin/sstat
/usr/bin/strigger
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/usr/share/man/man1/srun.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sshare.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sstat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/strigger.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/acct_gather.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/burst_buffer.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/cgroup.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ext_sensors.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/gres.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/job_container.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/knl.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/nonstop.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/slurm.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/topology.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/slurmrestd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/spank.8.gz
/var/log/slurm
/var/spool/slurm
/var/spool/slurm/ctld
/var/spool/slurm/d
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.