Slurm Workload Manager

Slurm Workload Manager is ranked #11 of 21 in GPU cluster management software on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, Self-hosted. There is a free plan.

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Slurm Free No monetary cost GNU GPL v2 · self-hosted cluster software slurm.schedmd.com · 1 Oct 2026

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Slurm Workload Manager

Purpose: Slurm is an open-source, fault-tolerant, highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters.
Core functions: It allocates compute resources, starts and monitors work on allocated nodes, and manages queues of pending work.
Scheduling features: Optional plugins provide accounting, advanced reservations, gang scheduling, backfill scheduling, topology-aware resource selection, resource limits, and multifactor job prioritization.
Architecture: Slurm uses a centralized slurmctld manager, slurmd daemons on compute nodes, optional slurmdbd accounting, and optional slurmrestd REST access.
REST API: Slurmrestd provides a REST API, but the API is not designed to be directly internet-facing and supports only unencrypted HTTP communications.
Authentication: Slurm authenticates communications between components through a configurable authentication plugin, with MUNGE as the default and recommended option and an internal auth/slurm plugin also available.
GPU support: Optional GRES plugins support NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, AWS Trainium, and AWS Inferentia accelerators, plus NVIDIA MPS and GPU sharing.
Database integration: Slurm supports MySQL or MariaDB for accounting and can record accounting data in a text file, directly in a database, or through slurmdbd for multiple clusters.
Cloud and Kubernetes: SchedMD documents Slurm integrations for Google Cloud, AWS Parallel Computing Service, Microsoft Azure and CycleCloud, while Slinky provides interoperability between Slurm and Kubernetes.
Supported operating systems: Linux is thoroughly tested on arm64, ppc64, and x86_64; FreeBSD and NetBSD have limited support, while macOS is not currently supported.
Support services: SchedMD offers standard support, deployment services, on-site training, and technical account manager services for Slurm and Slinky.
Primary audience: SchedMD describes Slurm as a workload manager for high-performance computing and AI environments, including large-scale supercomputing systems.
Notable adoption: SchedMD states that Slurm is the scheduler of choice for over half of the top one-hundred systems in the TOP500.
Project history: Slurm was initially released in 2002, and SchedMD was founded in 2010 to continue developing it.
Price from: Free

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