I was just wondering if anyone has successfully installed CluBORun on a Linux cluster that utilizes SLURM, and if so how you did it? The resources on the CluBORun github page are pretty scarce.

Sorry can’t help answer the question, but I looked it up on github as I haven’t heard of it before. The about file says the following:

CluBORun: tool for utilizing idle resources of computing clusters in volunteer computing

There are some reasons why resources of computing clusters can be useful in volunteer computing. Firstly, a computing cluster is quite reliable device, so results obtained on it can be taken as a reference when checking the results. Secondly, computing cluster can significantly help to increase performance of a new volunteer project with low amount of participants.

We have implemented a CluBORun tool (Cluster for BOINC Run) aimed at utilizing idle resources of computing clusters in volunteer computing projects based on BOINC. The key feature of CluBORun is that it utilizes only idle resources of computing clusters (just as BOINC-manager does it for computers) and uses only ordinary cluster’s user rights. When tasks from another user appear in a cluster queue, CluBORun stops BOINC tasks in queue if new tasks can be launched on freed resources.

The CluBORun tool was launched on the computing cluster MVS-100k (Joint supercomputer center of RAS) on December 2013 to include the resources of this cluster in volunteer computing project SAT@home. As a result the performance of the project increased by 40 % in some periods of time. At the moment CluBORun can work with the SLURM, Cleo and the SUPPZ job scheduler systems. We plan to make a version for the PBS TORQUE system in the nearest future.

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MarkJ