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Slurm is an open-source workload manager and job scheduler for Linux clusters, providing resource allocation, job execution, and queue management for large-scale high-performance computing environmen…

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🚀 We’re heading to TechEx Europe 2025 in Amsterdam on 24–25 September!

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Kubernetes Service Discovery Explained with Practical Examples

Understand Kubernetes Service Discovery with clear examples of Services, Endpoints, DNS, Ingress, and headless setups in action.

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Esoteric Languages Challenge Coders to Think Way Outside the Box

Daniel Temkin has written a book about44 esoteric programming languages, including Valence, which uses ancient Greek measuring symbols. Temkin emphasizes the significance of esoteric languages in promoting creativity and investigating the complicated nature of modern programming. These languages hav.. read more

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Is Java Still Used? Current Trends and Market Demand in 2025

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The Ultimate Sprint Retro: My 10 Years of Software Engineering

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Developer Experience at Pinterest: The Journey to PinConsole

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The Importance of Reliability in Airport Systems

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AI Models Need a Virtual Machine

Microsoft and academic researchers want to give AI models a new kind of home: theAI Model Virtual Machine (MVM). Think of it like theJVM, but for LLMs—an interface layer that standardizes how models plug into host software. The MVM enforcessecurity,isolation, andtool-calling rules, while also unloc.. read more

Slurm Workload Manager is an open-source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cluster management and scheduling system widely used in high-performance computing (HPC). Designed to operate without kernel modifications, Slurm coordinates thousands of compute nodes by allocating resources, launching and monitoring jobs, and managing contention through its flexible scheduling queue.

At its core, Slurm uses a centralized controller (slurmctld) to track cluster state and assign work, while lightweight daemons (slurmd) on each node execute tasks and communicate hierarchically for fault tolerance. Optional components like slurmdbd and slurmrestd extend Slurm with accounting and REST APIs. A rich set of commands—such as srun, squeue, scancel, and sinfo—gives users and administrators full visibility and control.

Slurm’s modular plugin architecture supports nearly every aspect of cluster operation, including authentication, MPI integration, container runtimes, resource limits, energy accounting, topology-aware scheduling, preemption, and GPU management via Generic Resources (GRES). Nodes are organized into partitions, enabling sophisticated policies for job size, priority, fairness, oversubscription, reservation, and resource exclusivity.

Widely adopted across academia, research labs, and enterprise HPC environments, Slurm serves as the backbone for many of the world’s top supercomputers, offering a battle-tested, flexible, and highly configurable framework for large-scale distributed computing.