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@laura_garcia shared a post, 2 days, 9 hours ago

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𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲

🎉 We're honored to be featured in this excellent article on one of today's most important topics: 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲. It's always rewarding to see industry experts recognize the critical role that intelligent application delivery, high availability, and resilient tr..

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@sancharini shared a post, 3 days, 2 hours ago

Building Production-Ready Pipelines with Open Source Automation Tools: Real Patterns That Work

Learn the patterns that separate production-ready pipelines from those that fail. How experienced teams use open source automation tools effectively.

Open Source Automation Tools Modern Engineering Teams Are Building Pipelines Around

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@laura_garcia shared a post, 5 days, 13 hours ago

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Network Load Balancer

🌐 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. A 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗟𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 helps organizations maximize availability, eliminate bottlenecks, and keep critical applications running smoothly—even under heavy traffic or unexpected failures. In our latest article, we explain how Layer 4 l..

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@laura_garcia shared a post, 6 days, 9 hours ago

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SOC2 compliance

🔐 𝗦𝗢𝗖 𝟮 alignment is about trust, resilience, and doing security right by design. At 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗗, our load balancing and application delivery platform is aligned with the 𝗦𝗢𝗖 𝟮 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮—𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘆. From encryption ..

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Slurm Workload Manager is an open-source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cluster management and scheduling system widely used in high-performance computing (HPC). Designed to operate without kernel modifications, Slurm coordinates thousands of compute nodes by allocating resources, launching and monitoring jobs, and managing contention through its flexible scheduling queue.

At its core, Slurm uses a centralized controller (slurmctld) to track cluster state and assign work, while lightweight daemons (slurmd) on each node execute tasks and communicate hierarchically for fault tolerance. Optional components like slurmdbd and slurmrestd extend Slurm with accounting and REST APIs. A rich set of commands—such as srun, squeue, scancel, and sinfo—gives users and administrators full visibility and control.

Slurm’s modular plugin architecture supports nearly every aspect of cluster operation, including authentication, MPI integration, container runtimes, resource limits, energy accounting, topology-aware scheduling, preemption, and GPU management via Generic Resources (GRES). Nodes are organized into partitions, enabling sophisticated policies for job size, priority, fairness, oversubscription, reservation, and resource exclusivity.

Widely adopted across academia, research labs, and enterprise HPC environments, Slurm serves as the backbone for many of the world’s top supercomputers, offering a battle-tested, flexible, and highly configurable framework for large-scale distributed computing.