JHPCE has used the SGE (Sun Grid Engine) for many years. We are changing to SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management). The SGE codebase is not actively maintained, and the newest version is about 10 years old at this point. SLURM on the other hand is more widely used, with regular patches and updates made available.
SLURM and SGE are conceptually similar, with the notion of “jobs”, “nodes”, “partitions” (known as “queues” in SGE), and resource allocation for RAM and cores. However the commands and options between the two schedulers are different. An orientation to using SLURM on the JHPCE cluster is available, and we will be providing training sessions for end users as we get closer to the cutover date. There are also documents and example code files in /jhpce/shared/jhpce/slurm on the test nodes.