This guide explains how to get EnginFrame, Neutro and SLURM running inside Ubuntu on Windows. Windows Subsystem for Linux presently supports Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In case running on AWS first select the Windows Server 2019 AMI
In the next step we select the instance type (head over to instaguide.io for a great overview of instances and related pricing). In our case we select a t3.large. FYI at the time of writing: WSL 2 is only available in Windows Builds 18917 or higher. We can check the Windows version with the following command: systeminfo | Select-String "^OS Name","^OS Version"
Then we enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL):
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
and reboot. Now we can install the Linux-distro – in our case Ubuntu 18.04.
In case the Microsoft shop does not work you can download the Ubuntu distribution and others manually based on the list from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual. In the case of Ubuntu 18.04 the appx file can be found here: https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804.
You can even download the Linux distribution for WSL via commandline – and then install the APPX Linux package:
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804 -OutFile Ubuntu.appx -UseBasicParsing
## And install the Ubuntu distribution:
Add-AppxPackage .\Ubuntu_*.appx
which will look similar to:
Now you can click on the Windows “Start” button and you can see Ubuntu 18.04 as recently added app:
After starting the Ubuntu setup will ask for a Linux user name and after entering e.g. “nisp” the Ubuntu window should look similar to this in case of Ubuntu 20.04:
You got Ubuntu 20.04 running on Windows!
Or in case you install Ubuntu 18.04 it will look like this:
EnginFrame on Ubuntu in WSL
As next step we install the NICE EnginFrame portal. As Neutro prefers the Java 8 runtime (please see our guide about the NICE Neutro session scheduler installation which you might want to install before EnginFrame for Windows session management) we install EnginFrame on Java 8 as well:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
# start the installation wizzard of EnginFrame and typically select pam with passwd as authentication strategy - or e.g. Activedirectory
# in case of AD or LDAP authentication install ldap tools:
# apt install ldap-utils
java -jar enginframe-20??.*.jar
The EnginFrame installation on Ubuntu will at the end complain about the boot startup installation but you can start EnginFrame yourself with /opt/nice/enginframe/bin/enginframe start:
Now EnginFrame is running inside the Windows Subsystem for Linux in Ubuntu 18.04. Below is a screenshot of the related processes in addition to a Neutro session scheduler java process:
After logging into EnginFrame via the standard port 8080 we can find the Neutro host inside the EnginFrame Views host view:
SLURM on WSL
Now we can start the SLURM installation:
> yum update
> yum upgrade
> sudo apt install slurm-wlm
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Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
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freeipmi-common gcc-7-base libaec0 libdbi1 libfreeipmi16 libgfortran4 libhdf5-100 libhwloc-plugins libhwloc5
libipmimonitoring5a libltdl7 liblua5.1-0 libmunge2 libmysqlclient20 libquadmath0 librrd8 libslurmdb32 libsz2 munge
mysql-common ocl-icd-libopencl1 slurm-client slurm-wlm-basic-plugins slurmctld slurmd
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freeipmi-tools libhwloc-contrib-plugins opencl-icd
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> sudo apt install slurm-wlm-doc
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# Now copy the configuration generator file over to the C partition
cp /usr/share/doc/slurm-wlm-doc/html/configurator.easy.html /mnt/c/Users/Administrator/
# adapt the hostname
hostname ubuwls
# prepare startup of SLURM
mkdir -p /var/spool/slurm-llnl
chown -R slurm:slurm /var/spool/slurm-llnl
# check if SLURM Ctld can start up properly
slurmctld-wlm -D
To finalize the SLURM configuration we load the config file into your browser from file:///C:/Users/Administrator/configurator.easy.html:
You can mostly use the defaults for the settings on this page. We suggest to make the following adjustments:
- Make sure the hostname of the system is ControlMachine and NodeName
- State Preservation: set StateSaveLocation to /var/spool/slurm-llnl
- Process tracking: use Pgid instead of Cgroup
- Event logging: this is more of a personal preference as to whether you want the logging to be sent to the standard system log (/var/log/syslog), or if you would like it saved to its own unique file to keep it clearer to read (e.g. /var/log/slurm-llnl/SlurmctldLogFile)
And click “submit” at the end of the page. Now copy what is generated on this page to a new slurm.conf file: cat > /etc/slurm-llnl/slurm.conf
Please verify that your hostname (in case you changed it) is updated in the /etc/hosts file so that SLURM can identify the node.
# Start slurmctld and slurmd (they are already enabled to start on boot)
# On WSL systemctl is not enabled
# sudo systemctl start slurmctld
# sudo systemctl start slurmd
# sudo systemctl status slurmctld
# so we use standard startup
/etc/init.d/munge start
/etc/init.d/slurmctld start
/etc/init.d/slurmd start
# If slurmctld or slurmd is giving us problems, let’s start it interactively and check the debug output:
# slurmctld -Dcvvv
# https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2761: SO_RCVLOWAT not yet implemented in WSL
root>:/etc/slurm-llnl# srun hostname
srun: error: Unable to set low water socket option: Protocol not available
ubuwls
SLURM on WSL should be up and running well:
In case you want to build SLURM on Ubuntu on WSL:
# Build SLURM on UBU WLS
# wget SLURM source
wget https://download.schedmd.com/slurm/slurm-20.02.3.tar.bz2
tar xfvj slurm-20.02.3.tar.bz2
sudo apt install python3 gcc openssl lua5.3 man2html make
cd slurm*
./configure
make
sudo make install
In this guide we have installed the Windows Subsystem for Linux to host Ubuntu where we can install EnginFrame, NEUTRO Windows session scheduler as well as the SLURM scheduler. The process is very smooth and EnginFrame and NEUTRO are running perfectly inside WSL.
Any questions just let us know.