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Release of RacksDB v0.4.0

Release of RacksDB v0.4.0

Rackslab announces the release of RacksDB v0.4.0 with an new modern and intuitive web UI!

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Release of RacksDB v0.3.0

Release of RacksDB v0.3.0

Rackslab announces the release of new version RacksDB v0.3.0! It notably brings GPU support and drawing parameters.

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Release of RacksDB v0.2.0

Release of RacksDB v0.2.0

Rackslab announces the release of new version RacksDB v0.2.0, an open source solution to modelize your datacenters infrastructures with two new major features.

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Slurm-web is now endorsed by Rackslab!

Slurm-web is now endorsed by Rackslab!

Slurm-web is an open source web interface for Slurm workload manager. The project was born in 2015. Now it is being endorsed by Rackslab which becomes its new official maintainer, for a bright new future!

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Release of Fatbuildr v2.0.0

Release of Fatbuildr v2.0.0

Fatbuildr v2.0.0 is released with many new major features!

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Associate metadata to Slurm jobs

Associate metadata to Slurm jobs

Slurm batch scheduler allows users to associate to jobs optional fields in text format, such as the name of the job or a comment. These fields are not directly used by Slurm, their value has no influence on its behavior. They are available to store any information related to the jobs and can be manipulated through standard Slurm commands. For example, these fields can be useful for differentiating, filtering, classifying or annotating jobs.

We will discover in this post an approach to use the comment field to associate structured metadata to the jobs and enrich accounting reports with custom information.

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