v1.9.0: Altair PBS Pro, Core Support for Batch, Simplified Network Storage

[heyealex]

Key New Features

• Initial support for Altair PBS Professionsal
• Batch modules promoted from experimental to core support
• Mounting of network storage via use field. See full documentation.
• GCS Fuse Support with pre-existing-network-storage.

New Resources

• schedmd-slurm-gcp-v5-node-group: Support modules for defining one or more node groups used in defining a schedmd-slurm-gcp-v5-partition.
• PBS Pro Modules:
  • pbspro-execution: Provisions one or more PBS execution hosts to run jobs in a PBS Professional cluster.
  • pbspro-client: Provisions one or more PBS Client hosts to submit jobs to a PBS Professional cluster.
  • pbspro-server: Provisions a PBS Server Host to operate and administer a PBS Professional cluster.
  • pbspro-install: Creates Toolkit runners that download PBS Pro RPM packages and installs them with configuration settings as documented in the PBS Pro "Big Book".
  • pbspro-preinstall: Uploads PBS Pro RPM packages and, optionally, a license file to Google Cloud Storage.
  • pbspro-qmgr: Creates a Toolkit runner that performs the following administrative PBS configurations on a PBS server.

Resource Improvements

• Core support for Batch modules:
  • batch-job-template
  • batch-login-node
• batch-job-template: Use Native Batch mounting for nfs.
• batch-login-node: Support for multiple batch jobs used by a single Batch login node.
• schedmd-slurm-gcp-v5-partition:
  • Explicit zone preference option.
  • Support for multiple node groups per partition.
• pre-existing-network-storage: GCS Fuse support

Version updates

• Slurm on GCP v5.2.0
  • schedmd-slurm-gcp-v5-controller
  • schedmd-slurm-gcp-v5-login
  • schedmd-slurm-gcp-v5-hybrid
  • schedmd-slurm-gcp-v5-partition
• Slurm on GCP v4.2.1
  • SchedMD-Slurm-on-GCP-controller
  • SchedMD-Slurm-on-GCP-login-node
  • SchedMD-Slurm-on-GCP-partition

Deprecations

• Variables in schedmd-slurm-gcp-v5-partition that are now in schedmd-slurm-gcp-v5-node-group are now deprecated and cannot be used for defining a default node group.
• Batch modules moved location. Blueprints referencing the old source location will have to be updated.

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This discussion was created from the release v1.9.0: Altair PBS Pro, Core Support for Batch, Simplified Network Storage.