https://wiggels.dev/tags/slurm/Recent content in Slurm on Hunter WigelsworthHugoen-usMon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://wiggels.dev/posts/armada-vs-slurm-who-owns-the-cluster/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://wiggels.dev/posts/armada-vs-slurm-who-owns-the-cluster/<p>There&rsquo;s a question hiding inside every batch scheduler, and almost nobody asks it out loud: who owns the cluster?</p> <p>If the answer is &ldquo;we do, top to bottom, and nobody else gets to touch it,&rdquo; you&rsquo;re in SLURM country. If the answer is &ldquo;the platform team owns the clusters, and we&rsquo;re just tenants who need to run jobs somewhere,&rdquo; you&rsquo;re in Armada country. Both schedulers will cheerfully run your workload. Both will work fine until they don&rsquo;t. The thing that determines which one is right for you has almost nothing to do with features and almost everything to do with that question.</p>