Hello, I'm new to Slurm (coming from PBS), and so I will likely have a few questions over the next several weeks, as I work to transition my infrastructure from PBS to Slurm.
My first question has to do with *adding nodes to Slurm*. According to the FAQ (and other articles I've read), you need to basically shut down slurm, update the slurm.conf file *on all nodes in the cluster*, then restart slurm. - Why do all nodes need to know about all other nodes? From what I have read, its Slurm does a checksum comparison of the slurm.conf file across all nodes. Is this the only reason all nodes need to know about all other nodes? - Can I create a symlink that points <sysconfdir>/slurm.conf to a slurm.conf file on an NFS mount point, which is mounted on all the nodes? This way, I would only need to update a single file, then restart Slurm across the entire cluster. - Any additional help/resources for adding/removing nodes to Slurm would be much appreciated. Perhaps there is a "toolkit" out there to automate some of these operations (which is what I already have for PBS, and will create for Slurm, if something doesn't already exist). Thank you all, David
