Slurm Workload Manager vs Voda Scheduler
Slurm Workload Manager
slurm.schedmd.comVoda Scheduler
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| Figure | Slurm Workload Manager | Voda Scheduler |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · GPU Cluster Management Software | 7.5 (#11) | 6.5 (#18) |
| Purpose | Slurm is an open-source, fault-tolerant, highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters. | Voda Scheduler is a GPU scheduler for elastic deep learning workloads built on Kubernetes, Kubeflow Training Operator, and Horovod. |
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In their own words
Slurm Workload Manager
Slurm Workload Manager is free, open-source software for allocating compute resources and scheduling work across Linux clusters. It starts and monitors jobs on allocated nodes and manages queues of pending work. Optional plugins add accounting, advanced reservations, gang and backfill scheduling, topology-aware resource selection, resource limits, and multifactor job prioritization. The system uses a central slurmctld manager and slurmd daemons on compute nodes; accounting and REST components are optional. GPU plugins support NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, AWS Trainium, and AWS Inferentia accelerators, along with NVIDIA MPS and GPU sharing. Accounting can use MySQL or MariaDB and can record data in a text file, directly in a database, or through slurmdbd for multiple clusters. Slurmrestd provides REST access, but the API is not designed for direct internet exposure and supports only unencrypted HTTP. Linux is thoroughly tested on arm64, ppc64, and x86_64; FreeBSD and NetBSD support is limited, and macOS is unsupported. Deployment is self-hosted.
Voda Scheduler
Voda Scheduler has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.