Welcome to the future of sustainable energy management and oil & gas exploration with SchedMD!
As the energy sector evolves to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world, innovative solutions are crucial to achieving efficiency, reliability, and environmental sustainability. In the dynamic world of oil and gas exploration, efficiency, precision, and advanced technologies are the driving forces behind success.
How Can Slurm Help Streamline My HPC Experience?
Introducing Slurm – your strategic partner in revolutionizing exploration processes. Our cutting edge solution is tailored to meet the unique challenges of your industry, offering seamless and reliable computing for innovation.
Delve into the core feature of Slurm, designed for the oil, gas, and energy sector. From intelligent data analytics to advanced energy management capabilities, Slurm empowers organizations to optimize their operations, reduce costs, and make informed decisions to drive sustainability.
Harness the power of Slurm to conquer the complex landscapes of energy, oil, and gas exploration with confidence and precision.
Slurm for Energy, Oil, & Gas
High Scalability
Slurm can easily manage performance requirements for exascale computer needs. Slurm outperforms competitive schedulers with consistent execution of 100K nodes per GPU. From data acquisition to analysis and reporting, Slurm scalability accelerates project timelines.
Cloud Capabilities
Slurm is not just an on-prem software, but can help sites harness the power of the Cloud. With auto-scaling capabilities, Slurm can automate elastic scaling of instances according to factors like queue depth and job requirements. Slurm can also support hybrid clusters to dynamically offload jobs or to burst nodes into specific cloud projects.
Performance Optimization
Slurm’s performance optimization isn’t just a feature; it’s a standard for computational excellence. Configure nodes for optimal performance, leverage precision resource allocation, seize control of task affinity, and unleash fair-share scheduling. Efficiently conquer computing complexities with Slurm!
Take Your Computing to the Next Level
Join us on the journey to computational excellence – where innovation meets efficiency, and where Slurm becomes the catalyst for unlocking the full potential of your HPCl workflows. Welcome to a new era of performance and productivity with Slurm!
Praise for SchedMD Support
“We have been a SchedMD support customer for seven years. They’ve always given timely, high quality responses.”
Technical University of Denmark
Slurm for the Energy Sector
The energy sector has saved countless millions of dollars using supercomputers to model and simulate complex, dynamic systems that in the past have been impossible to demonstrate physically. However, supercomputers and complex computational clusters are expensive to construct and often cost-prohibitive. Thus, many companies and public groups rely on sharing high-performance computing resources, such as the U.S. Energy Department’s National Labs and others.
With a high demand for high-performance computing systems and individual users submitting countless jobs for supercomputers to complete, work could easily get backed up or run inefficiently. This is where Slurm comes in. Simply put, Slurm is a queue management system that allocates access to computer nodes, provides a framework for starting, executing, and monitoring work, and manages the queue of pending work.
Slurm supports the largest and fastest compute clusters in the world. It helps the energy sector generate the greatest possible intellectual and economic benefit for companies and consumers. Discover more by visiting SchedMD.com and download Slurm today.
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Energy, Oil, & Gas FAQ’s
What security measures does Slurm have in place?
With job and resource isolation capabilities, Slurm allows administrators to define partitions, ensuring that jobs run independently of one another. Partitions ensure sensitive research data is only processed and stored within designated and controlled environments. These isolations help prevent unauthorized access and reduce the risk of data leaks and tampering.
Other checkpoints include comprehensive logging and auditing which tracks user activity, ensuring accountability and traceability in data handling processes. Administrators can also enforce controls and limit access to sensitive research data based on user roles and permissions.
What documentation, training and support resources are available for admin and end users?
SchedMD has a number of services available including:
- Support contracts
- On-site trainings
- Consultations hours
- Custom development
- Configuration Assistance
- Migration Assistance/Proof of Concept
Administrators and users can review Slurm documentation and more information on SchedMD Services.
How does Slurm utilize GPUs?
With first class resource management for GPUs, Slurm allows users to request GPU resources alongside CPUs. This flexibility ensures that jobs are executed quickly and efficiently, while maximizing resource utilization.
Slurm provides features and flexibility that allow for effective GPU resource management including resource allocation, scheduling policies, GPU partitioning, and GPU reporting and monitoring.
It’s important to note that the exact behavior of Slurm in managing GPUs can be customized through its configuration files and policies, making it flexible for various HPC cluster setups.
What monitoring and reporting features does Slurm offer?
Slurm has multiple features and commands in place to help administrators and end users monitor cluster activity, track resource utilization, diagnose performance issues, and integrate with monitoring systems. Learn more about features like squeue, scontrol, sinfo, and more in our Common Slurm Commands blog.
Does Slurm support containerized applications in Energy, Oil, and Gas?
Slurm can support and interact with containers in various ways to manage and execute jobs efficiently.
Slurm supports multiple container runtimes (Docker, Singularity, Shifter) and can be integrated with container orchestrators (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm). Slurm will allocate resources based on job submission requirements and manage the execution of jobs within containers using the specified runtime. The integrated container orchestrator handles the deployment and management of containers across the cluster.
Containers provide isolation between jobs running on the same node, preventing interference and conflicts. Slurm ensures that containers are properly isolated and securely managed within the HPC cluster environment.
Slurm’s support for containers provides users with flexibility in managing and executing jobs in HPC environments, allowing them to leverage container technologies to enhance productivity and resource utilization.
How does Slurm integrate with my site’s existing software and industry tools?
Slurm utilizes REST API, opening a wide array of possibilities for a site’s HPC environment. REST API enables Slurm’s integration with existing software and industry preferred tools. Examples of REST API integrations include:
- Workflow Management systems to orchestrate complex data processing pipelines
- Data analytics platforms to efficiently distribute computational tasks across clusters, dynamically allocating and scaling resources based on workload demands.
- Container orchestration tools to allow users to deploy containerized applications as jobs, manage resources allocation, and scale container instances.
- Monitoring and logging systems to provide administrators with real-time insights on cluster performance, resource utilization, and job execution.
REST API serves as a versatile integration mechanism to enable seamless communication between SLurm and a wide array of tools, empowering users to leverage their HPC resources to the fullest power.
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