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Installing Slurm requires root access to the server/workstation, which is not always available. In academia the management of computational resources is often t
by ExpectationMax 7y ago
Installing Slurm requires root access to the server/workstation, which is not always available. In academia the management of computational resources is often the responsibility of a separate IT unit which is not part of the research group itself. Further the IT unit might not be willing to implement desired changes to the server infrastructure or might take _extremely_ long to do so. Often the setup of a scheduler is also significantly more complicated in this context, for example due to authentication via a University LDAP or oddities of the server setup.
- bonoboTP 7y agoLuckily in our academic research group we administer our own workstations and servers ourselves. Has downsides as well of course, but at least we can fix or change anything we want hardware or software-wise. I can imagine it would be excruciating to explain our requirements to an external IT department and then go back and forth clarifying what we want, make them learn stuff they'd otherwise not need, convince them that we really need it, wait until they have time... The downside is that things are not "professionally set up" (we're computer scientists but not pro admins), but at least if there's a deadline and something isn't working, we'll surely fix it because we have skin in the game.