[Buildbot-devel] buildbot and a cluster (dynamically controlling buildslaves)

[Ian Zimmerman]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:29:37 +0100
"Derek Graham (ML)" <derek.m.graham+ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to use buildbot with a compute cluster that is only accessible
> through a job scheduler software framework (Platform LSF in case
> you've heard of it), which means that the machine your job gets to
> run on is picked by this software.

In a similar situation, my slaves are not part of the cluster, and I
don't actually run the tests on the slaves.  Instead my steps upload
the build products to the cluster machines (once allocated) and
execute the tests there over ssh.

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