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90 points sugarpimpdorsey | 1 comments | 30 Jul 25 23:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.276s | source
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teekert ◴[03 Aug 25 09:48 UTC] No.44775397[source]▶
Perhaps it is worth noting that all super computers I know (like the Dutch Snellius and the Finnish Lumi) are Slurm clusters with login nodes.

Bioinformaticians (among others) in (for example) University Medical Centers won’t get much more bang for the buck than on a well managed Slurm cluster (ie with GPU and Fat nodes etc to distinguish between compute loads). You buy the machines, they are utilized close to 100% over their life time.

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1. JdeBP ◴[03 Aug 25 11:03 UTC] No.44775708[source]▶
One of the more prominent uses of Slurm to hit the headlines recently is by the data access centres for the LSST data from the Vera Rubin Observatory. Such as the U.S.A. facility in Stanford and the U.K. facility at the University of Edinburgh's Somerville.

* https://developer.lsst.io/usdf/batch.html

* https://epcc.ed.ac.uk/hpc-services/somerville

But they're all over the place, from the James Hutton Institute to London Imperial.

* https://www.cropdiversity.ac.uk

* https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/people/csg/guides/hpcom...