Everything about Slurm Workload Manager

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Slurm Workload ManagerA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Integrative review of artificial intelligence applications in nursing: education, clinical practice, workload management, and professional perceptionsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The 80/20 principleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Project Manager Workload—Assessment of Values and InfluencesCited 22 times
5. Go sideways: TORQUEA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Supercomputer operating systemA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Project Manager Workload—Assessment of Values and Influences

  John A. Kuprenas, Chung-Li Jung, Abdallah S. Fakhouri · 2000 · Project Management Journal · 22 citations

• The impact on the workload of the Ward Manager with the introduction of administrative assistants

  RACHEL LOCKE, CAMILLA LEACH, FLEUR KITSELL · 2011 · Journal of Nursing Management · 22 citations

• Design characteristics of a workload manager to aid drivers in safety–critical situations

  Evona Teh, Samantha Jamson, Oliver Carsten · 2018 · Cognition, Technology & Work · 9 citations

• Simulator Study of Effects of Alternative Distraction Mitigation Strategies in Driver Workload Manager

  Louis Tijerina, Mike Blommer, Reates Curry · 2011 · Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board · 7 citations

• Transitioning GlideinWMS, a multi domain distributed workload manager, from GSI proxies to tokens and other granular credentials

  Marco Mambelli, Bruno Coimbra, Dennis Box · 2024 · EPJ Web of Conferences · 4 citations

• Cognitive Workload and Visual Attention Analyses of the Air Traffic Control Tower Flight Data Manager (TFDM) Prototype Demonstration

  Kiran Lokhande, Hayley J. Davison Reynolds · 2012 · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 4 citations

• The Crew Workload Manager

  Michael C. Dorneich, Bretislav Passinger, Christopher Hamblin · 2011 · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 3 citations

• Case Manager Work and Workload: Uncovering a Wicked Problem—A Secondary Analysis Using Interpretive Description

  K. D. Fraser, L. Garland Baird, S. Labonte · 2018 · Home Health Care Management & Practice · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Integrative review of artificial intelligence applications in nursing: education, clinical practice, workload management, and professional perceptions

  Rabie Adel El Arab, Omayma Abdulaziz Al Moosa, Mette Sagbakken · 2025 · Frontiers in Public Health · 104 citations

• Autonomous Lifecycle Management for Resource-Efficient Workload Orchestration for Green Edge Computing

  Francesc Guim, Thijs Metsch, Hassnaa Moustafa · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking · 75 citations

• USING SLURM WORKLOAD MANAGER FOR MANAGING SUPERCOMPUTERS AND LINUX CLUSTERS

  State University of Telecommunications, Kyiv, V. O. Dryha · 2023 · Telecommunication and Information Technologies · 0 citations

• The Mediating Role of Trust in Manager in the Effect of Workload on Job Stress in Emergency Health Services

  Aykut Yağcı, Harun Kırılmaz · 2025 · Yönetim Bilimleri Dergisi · 0 citations

• SAP HANA Workload Management: A Comprehensive Study on Workload Classes

  Puneet Aggarwal, Amit Aggarwal · 2024 · International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The 80/20 principleKoch, Richard · 1997
• Managing the flexible workforceRichard Pettinger · 1996
• Tuning Microsoft server clustersRobert W. Buchanan, Robert Buchanan · 2003
• 📕DB2 workload manager for Linux, Unix, and WindowsWhei-Jen Chen · 2008
• System Programmer's Guide toIBM Redbooks · 2005
• 📕Extra-instructional activities of the teacherRoscoe Pulliam · 1930
• Psychische Belastungen im ArbeitsalltagNadine Schuster, Sascha Haun · 2011
• The Managing Workload Pocketbook (Teachers' Pocketbooks)Will Thomas · 2005

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• HTCondor HTCondor is an open-source high-throughput computing software framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of computationally intensive tasks…
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• Apache Hadoop Apache Hadoop (/həˈduːp/) is a collection of open-source software utilities for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. It provides a software framework…
• Batch processing In computing, batch processing is the running of a software job in an automated and unattended way. A user schedules a job to run and then waits for a…