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<li><a href="#11">SLURM Version 1.1, May 2006</a></li>
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<li><a href="#12">SLURM Version 1.2, February 2007</a></li>
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<li><a href="#13">SLURM Version 1.3, Winter 2007</a></li>
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<li><a href="#13">SLURM Version 1.3, March 2008</a></li>
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<li><a href="#14">SLURM Version 1.4 and beyond</a></li>
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<a href="power_save.html">power savings</a> on idle nodes.</li>
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<li>Support for MPICH-MX, MPICH1/shmem and MPICH1/p4 added with
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task launch directly from the <i>srun</i> command.</li>
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<li>Perl APIs and wrappers for mpiexec and the Torque/PBS commands.</li>
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<li>Wrappers available for common Torque/PBS commands
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(<i>psub</i>, <i>pstat</i>, and <i>pbsnodes</i>).</li>
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<li>Support for <a href="http://www-unix.globus.org/">Globus</a>
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(using Torque/PBS command wrappers).</li>
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<li>Wrapper available for <i>mpiexec</i> command.</li>
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<h2><a name="13">Major Updates in SLURM Version 1.3</a></h2>
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<p>SLURM Version 1.3 is scheduled for release in the Winter of 2007.
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<p>SLURM Version 1.3 was relased in March 2008.
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Major enhancements include:
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<li>Job accounting and completion data stored in a database
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<li>Job accounting and completion data can be stored in a database
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(MySQL, PGSQL or simple text file).</li>
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<li>Gang scheduling of jobs (time-slicing of parallel jobs
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<li>SlurmDBD (Slurm Database Deamon) introduced to provide secure
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database support across multiple clusters.</li>
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<li>Gang scheduler plugin added (time-slicing of parallel jobs
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without an external scheduler).</li>
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<li>Support for BlueGene/P systems.</li>
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<li><i>Srun</i>'s --alloc, --attach, and --batch options removed (use
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<li>Cryptography logic moved to a separate plugin with the
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option of using OpenSSL (default) or Munge (GPL).</li>
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<li>Improved scheduling of multple job steps within a job's allocation.</li>
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<li>Support for job specification of node features with node counts.</li>
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<li><i>srun</i>'s --alloc, --attach, and --batch options removed (use
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<i>salloc</i>, <i>sattach</i> or <i>sbatch</i> commands instead).</li>
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<li><i>srun --pty</i> option added to support remote pseudo terminial for
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<li>Support added for a much richer job dependency specification
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<h2><a name="14">Major Updates in SLURM Version 1.4 and beyond</a></h2>