Adaptive Computing made a goal to encourage the TORQUE community to be more active. Thus, we kicked off MoabCon 2013 with TORQUE Fest! I was impressed to see that so many Moab HPC Admins were so passionate about TORQUE and learning about how they can help improve the features therein. The session room was packed, and became standing room only, which in my opinion shows a very high commitment level to TORQUE by the community.
Open source community joins Adaptive Computing TORQUE developers at MoabCon 2013.
Ken Nielsen, a Senior TORQUE developer, presented the TORQUE 4.2 improvement initiative. Some great improvements have been made in TORQUE, including:
- Moving to TCP for communication
- Moving some of the code to compiling in C++, instead of C
- Using Coverity for static code analysis
Alongside these improvements, David Beer reported that we are at .489 issues per thousand lines of code—over double an improvement from even when Ken Nielsen made his slide deck. He also reported that Adaptive’s QA test coverage is up significantly.
Brad Daw, a seasoned engineer, but newer addition to the Adaptive Computing team, presented on the move of TORQUE to GitHub. Using a bit of humor, Brad guided the audience through step-by-step instructions on how to pull down the source from GitHub and encouraged everyone to do so.
TORQUE Fest was filled with lots of great information about the changes to TORQUE; however, the main event was questions from the community.
Through the great questions, we discussed best practices from our TORQUE experts and the community as a whole. David Beer, seasoned TORQUE engineer, and Nick Ihli, a pre-sales engineer, helped answer community questions about specific scenarios and use cases.
Adaptive Computing encourages the open source community to help improve TORQUE. Adaptive Computing has shown an increased commitment to TORQUE, but would also like the community’s help and insight in ways that we can improve it for everyone, and not necessarily just as a RM for Moab.
Comment and Share: TORQUE Fest just scratched the surface to improving TORQUE’s capabilities and community involvement. What are some of the things you’d like to see improved in TORQUE?
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