slurm_IPC_patch

Slurm Workload Manager
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This is the Slurm Workload Manager. Slurm
is an open-source cluster resource management and job scheduling system
that strives to be simple, scalable, portable, fault-tolerant, and
interconnect agnostic. Slurm currently has been tested only under Linux.

As a cluster resource manager, Slurm provides three key functions. First,
it allocates exclusive and/or non-exclusive access to resources
(compute nodes) to users for some duration of time so they can perform
work. Second, it provides a framework for starting, executing, and
monitoring work (normally a parallel job) on the set of allocated
nodes. Finally, it arbitrates conflicting requests for resources by
managing a queue of pending work.

NOTES FOR GITHUB DEVELOPERS
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The official issue tracker for Slurm is at
http://bugs.schedmd.com/

We welcome code contributions and patches, but **we do not accept Pull Requests
through Github at this time.** Please submit patches as attachments to new
bugs under "Contributions" category.

SOURCE DISTRIBUTION HIERARCHY
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The top-level distribution directory contains this README as well as
other high-level documentation files, and the scripts used to configure
and build Slurm (see INSTALL). Subdirectories contain the source-code
for Slurm as well as a DejaGNU test suite and further documentation. A
quick description of the subdirectories of the Slurm distribution follows:

src/ [ Slurm source ]
Slurm source code is further organized into self explanatory
subdirectories such as src/api, src/slurmctld, etc.

doc/ [ Slurm documentation ]
The documentation directory contains some latex, html, and ascii
text papers, READMEs, and guides. Manual pages for the Slurm
commands and configuration files are also under the doc/ directory.

etc/ [ Slurm configuration ]
The etc/ directory contains a sample config file, as well as
some scripts useful for running Slurm.

slurm/ [ Slurm include files ]
This directory contains installed include files, such as slurm.h
and slurm_errno.h, needed for compiling against the Slurm API.

testsuite/ [ Slurm test suite ]
The testsuite directory contains the framework for a set of
DejaGNU and "make check" type tests for Slurm components.
There is also an extensive collection of Expect scripts.

auxdir/ [ autotools directory ]
Directory for autotools scripts and files used to configure and
build Slurm

contribs/ [ helpful tools outside of Slurm proper ]
Directory for anything that is outside of slurm proper such as a
different api or such. To have this build you need to do a
make contrib/install-contrib.

COMPILING AND INSTALLING THE DISTRIBUTION
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Please see the instructions at
http://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html
Extensive documentation is available from our home page at
http://slurm.schedmd.com/slurm.html

PROBLEMS
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If you experience problems compiling, installing, or running Slurm, see
http://slurm.schedmd.com/help.html

LEGAL
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Slurm is provided "as is" and with no warranty. This software is
distributed under the GNU General Public License, please see the files
COPYING, DISCLAIMER, and LICENSE.OpenSSL for details.