Intro to SLURM for ML Practitioners

SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is an open-source workload manager designed to schedule and manage jobs on large clusters. In the world of LLMs, SLURM has seen a resurgence in popularity due to the increased demand for training large models and scaling them to multiple nodes. This guide will introduce the fundamental concepts of SLURM, common commands and script structures,…