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Expand Up @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ you can easily demo Flux in a container, or even used in Kubernetes with the
`Flux Operator <https://flux-framework.org/flux-operator>`_. We have a vision for Flux to
allow for converged computing, or making it easy to move between traditional HPC and cloud.

How does Flux compare to other managers?
========================================

Flux has similarities to many other resource managers, but we do a variety of things quite differently.
Check out this comparison table here (:ref:`comparison-table`) for a detailed list!"
Do you want to add or correct a feature? Please `let us know <https://github.com/flux-framework/flux-docs/issues>`_

*****************
General Questions
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.. raw:: html
:file: ./comparison-table.html

.. list-table:: Flux Compared to Other Resource Managers
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:class: comparison-table

* - Features
- Flux
- SLURM
- PBSPro (OpenPBS)
- LSF
- MOAB
- RadicalPilot
- Balsam
- Parsl
- Nitro
* -
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
* - Open Source
- yes
- yes
- yes
- no
- no
- yes
- yes
- yes
- no

.. list-table:: Multi-User Mode
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:class: comparison-table

* - Features
- Flux
- SLURM
- PBSPro (OpenPBS)
- LSF
- MOAB
- RadicalPilot
- Balsam
- Parsl
- Nitro
* - Multi-user workload management
- yes
- yes
- yes
- yes
- yes
- no
- yes
- no
- no
* - Full hierarchical resource management
- yes
- no
- no
- no
- no
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
* - Graph-based advanced resource management
- yes
- no
- no
- no
- no
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
* - Scheduling specialization
- yes
- no
- no
- no
- no
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
* - Security: only a small isolated layer running in privileged mode for tighter security
- yes
- no
- no
- no
- no
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
* - Modern command-line interface (cli) design
- yes
- outdated
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- outdated
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
* - Application programming interface (APIs) for job management, job monitoring, resource monitoring, low-level messaging
- yes (4/4)
- some (3/4)
- some (2/4)
- some (2/4)
- some (3/4)
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
* - Language bindings
- yes (C, C++, Python, Lua, Rust, Julia, REST)
- some (C, REST)
- some (C, Python)
- some (C, Python)
- some (C)
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
* - Bulk job submission
- yes
- only uniform jobs
- only uniform jobs
- only uniform jobs
- only uniform jobs
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
* - High-speed streaming job submission
- yes
- no
- no
- no
- no
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a

.. list-table:: Single-User Mode
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* - Features
- Flux
- SLURM
- PBSPro (OpenPBS)
- LSF
- MOAB
- RadicalPilot
- Balsam
- Parsl
- Nitro
* - User-level workload management intstance
- yes
- no
- no
- no
- no
- yes
- yes
- yes
- yes
* - Support for nesting within foreign resource manager
- yes (slurm, lsf, ...)
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- yes
- yes
- yes
- yes
* - Fully hierarchical management of instances
- yes
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- no (two level)
- no
- no (two level)
- no (two level)
* - Scheduler specialization for user level
- yes
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- yes
- no
- yes (executors)
- no
* - Graph-based advanced scheduling for user level
- yes
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- no
- no
- no
- no
* - Built-in facilities for inter-job communication and coordination
- yes
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- no
- no
- no
- no
* - Modern command-line interface (cli) design
- yes
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- no cli
- yes
- no cli
- outdated
* - Application programming interfaces (APIs) for job management, job monitoring, resource monitoring, low-level messaging
- yes (4/4)
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- yes (4/4)
- some (2/4)
- some (2/4)
- no
* - Language bindings
- yes (C, C++, Python, Lua, Rust, Julia, REST)
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- some (Python)
- some (Python)
- some (Python)
- no
* - Bulk job submission
- yes
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- limited support
- no
- limited support
- only single core jobs
* - High-speed streaming job submission
- yes
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- yes
- no
- yes
- no
* - Support to launch message passing interface (MPI) jobs
- yes
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- yes
- yes
- limited support
- no
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.. _comparison-table:

Flux Compared to Other Resource Managers
----------------------------------------

.. include:: ../includes/comparison-table.rst

Do you want to add or correct a feature? Please `let us know <https://github.com/flux-framework/flux-docs/issues>`_

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