Jobs finished, an opportunity to fix slurm: it took all day long but finally it came. The problem was that the hostname 'norma' meant nothing to the nodes (and even if it did meant, it would be the wrong thing, ie. the address of the public ethernet interface). Adding 'norma' (as 10.0.0.1) to the nodes' /etc/hosts file seems to have fixed the problems.

Now, try to cook-up a via-slurm NAMD submission script …

Two new boxes destined for user terminals arrived, both based on Intel Atom with 2 Gbytes of memory. Funny how by enabling hyperthreading 2.6.18 sees four (and not just two) cores. SL 5.2 installed on one of them. Network cards based on RealTek chips (and, of course, needed the r8168 driver to get them working). At the end of the day it looks mostly OK.