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The '''Slurm Workload Manager''', (formerly known as '''Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management''' or ('''SLURM'''), or simply '''Slurm''', is a [[free and open-source]] [[job scheduler]] for [[Linux]] and [[Unix-like]] [[Kernelkernel (operating system)|kernels]], used by many of the world's [[supercomputer]]s and [[computer cluster]]s.

It provides three key functions:

* allocating exclusive and/or non-exclusive access to resources (computer nodes) to users for some duration of time so they can perform work,

* providing a framework for starting, executing, and monitoring work, (typically a parallel job such as [[Message Passing Interface|MPI]] (MPI) on a set of allocated nodes, and

* arbitrating contention for resources by managing a queue of pending jobs.