From: Paul H. Hargrove (PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 11:32:02 PST
[email protected] wrote: >> Dear Morris, >> >> I am working on integrating BLCR with SLURM. The progress is delayed >> because I am busy this term. I write another checkpoint plugin, >> checkpoint/blcr. Also the checkpoint plugin API was changed. I am >> testing and debugging the code. I wonder whether this may be accepted >> by SLURM. If OK, I can write an detailed document of the work after I >> complete it. >> >> Best Regards, >> Hongjia Cao > > > Dear Hongjia, > > The BLCR developers have already performed some integration of > BLCR with SLURM for SiCortex (a US computer vendor). I am including > the people who are involved in the work in this response so that > we can see what capabilities exist today and what capabilities > would be valuable to add in the future. If anything can be done > to SLURM to improve its integration with BLCR, that could certainly > take the form of a new SLURM plugin. It would be great if you > could do that work. > Hongjia, I am afraid that Moe (Morris) either misunderstood our discussions in November, or is misremembering them. Our BLCR work has *not* yet done any integration with SLURM. I mentioned to Moe that we had been doing BLCR integration work with TORQUE. I also described to Moe work we had done to integrate SLURM on the SiCortex platform with our Berkeley UPC compiler. So, with respect to BLCR+SLURM integration there are not any "capabilities that exist today" from which to expand. I do share Moe's interest in you completing work on a SLURM plugin for BLCR integration. If there are any questions about BLCR that I could answer for you, feel free to email our list: checkpoint_at_lbl_dot_gov. -Paul -- Paul H. Hargrove PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov Future Technologies Group Tel: +1-510-495-2352 HPC Research Department Fax: +1-510-486-6900 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory