Terminate support for Cobalt workload manager #450
Labels
API break
Issues that include incompatible API changes
area: launcher
Issues related to any of the launchers within SmartSim
type: chore
Issue outside of general development
Description
We are discontinuing the support of Cobalt as a workload manager. This means that
cobalt
will not be a valid value for thelauncher
argument in classes such asExperiment
andOrchestrator
.Justification
Given that the Theta supercomputer was retired and Theta was the only system we are aware of which was using Cobalt as a workload manager, we have made the decision to discontinue its support. This is mainly due to the impossibility of assessing whether the support is still working, as there is no system on which we can test it.
Implementation Strategy
PR #448 removes support for Cobalt in every SmartSim class and consequently eliminates mentions of it in documentation. If any user is still using Cobalt on a system we are not aware of, we kindly ask to inform us. We will wait for two weeks - i.e. until January 22nd - before merging #448.
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