Frequently Asked Questions
Why does sludge exist? There are a few graphical interfaces out there for monitoring and interacting with a SLURM cluster such as sview as well as slurm-web which ships with SLURM. However, those require either a Remote Desktop Connection or a web browser, or sometimes both depending on how access to your cluster is configured. Those who feel most comfortable in a terminal shell often opt out of going through the trouble to connect to these UIs and instead rely on simply running commands through an SSH connection to a head node (sbatch, squeue, scancel, etc....