Re: [HTCondor-users] [EXTERNAL] RE: The dedicated scheduler use in production systems

[Matthew West <mwest53@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Afternoon Martin,

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-acquires-schedmd/
Nvidia just acquired SchedMD, which maintains slurm.

I don't want to debate the merits of different products as I am in 
enough forums that do that already. But a few HPC groups I am in have 
all asked "what else is there?" and I figured might as well see who is 
using parallel universe on here. I also know its not a priority as the 
development team has enough to keep themselves busy for ages. But it's 
still there and I myself am a little tempted to give it a spin on a set 
of spare nodes here in Charlotte.

Cheers,
Matt

On 12/15/25 3:51 PM, Beaumont, Martin wrote:
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> What nvidia news?
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> We've being using the parallel universe here for over 5 years. It's not superbly convenient, but we've manage, somehow.
> We have to figure out how to tweak the openmpiscript for every new scientific app or if new versions of the app or openmpi are to be used.
> Basically, we have a modified wrapper for each use case based off the openmpiscript. Some even skip what it should be doing with the scheduler for better job handling.
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> Martin
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> Subject: [HTCondor-users] The dedicated scheduler use in production systems
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> Good afternoon everybody,
>
> Somewhat spurred by today's news from NVIDIA regarding job schedulers, I am curious if anyone is using the HTCondor dedicated scheduler / parallel universe in a production environment. Am curious about your experiences in how (well?) it fits your users workloads.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
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