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 yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install slurm-slurmctld using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slurm-slurmctld
Install slurm-slurmctld on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install slurm-slurmctld using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slurm-slurmctld on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.