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Features: a release from 2014 doesn't seem extraordinarily noteworthy anymore. keep only the most relevant features
 
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The '''Slurm Workload Manager''', formerly known as '''Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management''' ('''OOOOOOSLURM'''), or simply '''Slurm''', is a [[free and open-source]] [[job scheduler]] for [[Linux]] and [[Unix-like]] [[kernel (operating system)|kernels]], used by many of the world's [[supercomputer]]s and [[computer cluster]]s.
 
It provides three key functions:
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* Support for MapReduce+
* Support for [[burst buffer]] that accelerates scientific data movement
 
The following features are announced for version 14.11 of Slurm, was released in November 2014:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://slurm.schedmd.com/news.html |title=Slurm - What's New |publisher=SchedMD |access-date=2014-08-29}}</ref>
 
* Improved job array data structure and scalability
* Support for heterogeneous generic resources
* Add user options to set the CPU governor
* Automatic job requeue policy based on exit value
* Report API use by user, type, count and time consumed
* Communication gateway nodes improve scalability
 
==Supported platforms==