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		a_bonobo on Jan 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ML Engineering Online Book Definitely! I was in academia for ten years and SLURM is everywhere. It's free! Now outside academia, SLURM is nowhere. AWS and Slowflake are king.

0cf8612b2e1e on Jan 23, 2024 | [–]

Both of my last two companies used Slurm. Probably just comes down to if the company maintains its own internal compute cluster.

jebarker on Jan 23, 2024 | [–]

> Now outside academia, SLURM is nowhere

Do you mean outside of academia _and_ HPC? Industry HPC clusters using slurm are quite common.

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