# Customer Testimonials

"[SLURM is the] coolest thing since the invention of UNIX... We now can control who can log into [compute nodes] or at least can control which ones to allow logging into. This will be a tremendous help for users who are developing their apps."
Dennis Gurgul, Research Computing, Partners Health Care

"Today our largest IBM computers, BlueGene/L and Purple, ranked #1 and #3 respectively on the November 2005 Top500 list, use SLURM. This decision reduces large job launch times from tens of minutes to seconds. This effectivley provides us with millions of dollars with of additional compute resources without additional cost. It also allows our computational scientists to use their time more effectively. SLURM is scalable to very large numbers of processors, another essential ingredient for use at LLNL. This means larger computer systems can be used than otherwise possible with a commensurate increase in the scale of problems that can be solved. SLURM's scalability has eliminated resource management from being a concern for computers of any foreseeable size."
Dona Crawford, Associate Directory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

"SLURM has been adopted as the parallel allocation infrastructure used in HP's premier cluster stack, XC System Software. SLURM has permitted easy scaling of parallel applications on custer systems with thousands of processors, and has also proven itself to be highly portable and efficient between interconnects icluding Quadrics, QsNet, Myrinet, Infiniband and Gigabit Ethernet."
Bill Celmaster, XC Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company

Last modified 23 January 2006