How To Install slurm-slurmctld on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-slurmctld on CentOS 8.
What is slurm-slurmctld
Slurm controller daemon. Used to manage the job queue, schedule jobs, and dispatch RPC messages to the slurmd processon the compute nodes to launch jobs.
We can use yum or dnf to install slurm-slurmctld on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slurm-slurmctld.
Install slurm-slurmctld 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-slurmctld using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slurm-slurmctld
Install slurm-slurmctld 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-slurmctld using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slurm-slurmctld
How To Uninstall slurm-slurmctld on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the slurm-slurmctld package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slurm-slurmctld
slurm-slurmctld Package Contents on CentOS 8
/run/slurm/slurmctld.pid
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/f0aeaea90924be0a292f8240c20ea9521b5d3a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/slurmctld.service
/usr/sbin/slurmctld
/usr/share/man/man8/slurmctld.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-slurmctld on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.