Which pairing runs container jobs on Slurm without root?
Why B is the answer
Pyxis and Enroot
Enroot is unprivileged, and Pyxis is its Slurm plugin.
In detail
- Enroot is unprivileged, and Pyxis is its Slurm plugin.
- Pyxis is the Slurm plugin.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
Users run containers on Slurm with no root, through Enroot and Pyxis.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["User job"] --> B["Slurm"] B --> C["Pyxis plugin"] C --> D["Enroot"] D --> E["Unprivileged container"]
mindmap
root((BCM))
Head node
High availability
cmsh
Category
Shared settings
Software image
Node OS
Workloads
Slurm
Enroot and Pyxismindmap
root(("Containers on Slurm"))
n1["Enroot"]
n2["Runs unprivileged"]
n3["Pyxis"]
n4["Slurm plugin"]Key point: Pyxis and Enroot run unprivileged containers.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. HPL and the NCCL tests
- Those are benchmarks.
- C. cmsh and NVUE
- Those configure systems.
- D. UFM and NetQ
- Those are monitoring tools.