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-Arvados Node Manager provides elastic computing for Arvados and SLURM by creating and destroying virtual machines on demand. Node Manager currently supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure.
+Arvados Node Manager provides elastic computing for Arvados and Slurm by creating and destroying virtual machines on demand. Node Manager currently supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure.
Note: node manager is only required for elastic computing cloud environments. Fixed size clusters (such as on-premise HPC) do not require node manager.
h2. Install
-Node manager may run anywhere, however it must be able to communicate with the cloud provider's APIs, and use the command line tools @sinfo@, @squeue@ and @scontrol@ to communicate with the cluster's SLURM controller.
+Node manager may run anywhere, however it must be able to communicate with the cloud provider's APIs, and use the command line tools @sinfo@, @squeue@ and @scontrol@ to communicate with the cluster's Slurm controller.
On Debian-based systems:
[Daemon]
# The dispatcher can customize the start and stop procedure for
-# cloud nodes. For example, the SLURM dispatcher drains nodes
-# through SLURM before shutting them down.
+# cloud nodes. For example, the Slurm dispatcher drains nodes
+# through Slurm before shutting them down.
dispatcher = slurm
# Node Manager will ensure that there are at least this many nodes running at
# ssh_key = path
# The GCE image name and network zone name to use when creating new nodes.
-image = debian-7
+image = debian
# network = your_network_name
# JSON string of service account authorizations for this cluster.
[Daemon]
# The dispatcher can customize the start and stop procedure for
-# cloud nodes. For example, the SLURM dispatcher drains nodes
-# through SLURM before shutting them down.
+# cloud nodes. For example, the Slurm dispatcher drains nodes
+# through Slurm before shutting them down.
dispatcher = slurm
# Node Manager will ensure that there are at least this many nodes running at
# https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/resource-group-authenticate-service-principal/
# and updated for v2 of the Azure cli tool.
#
-# az ad app create --display-name "Node Manager" --homepage "https://arvados.org" --identifier-uris "https://<Your_Application_Uri>" --password <Your_Password>
+# az ad app create --display-name "Node Manager" --homepage "https://arvados.org" --identifier-uris "https://<Your_Application_Uri>" --password <Your_Password> --end-date <Desired_credential_expiry_date>
# az ad sp create "<Application_Id>"
# az role assignment create --assignee "<Application_Id>" --role Owner --resource-group "<Your_Azure_Arvados_Resource_Group>"
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