create a small library of cluster templates, preferably with a small constructor to create a cluster from a pre-existing template

[ssenator]

Templates of interest: 1) minimal cluster, similar to a stripped down "vc" 2) use-case: (re)create use problem found on a production cluster, so that the packaged hpc-collab cluster may be used to a) demonstrate the problem, b) (in)validate the fix for the problem, c) provide archival artifacts, potentially serving as points of integration into larger integration & validation test suites 3) minimal cluster,

• illustrating slurm configuration comparison scenarios, ex. configless slurm, [alternate backend data bases] (https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8537)
• comparing alternative configuration options (ex. FairShare vs Fairtree, with a queue loading generator) 4) clusters with login front-ends in different security zones

[katyfelkner]

this is high priority for me on the ML/Logs project. I need to run more than 2 compute nodes so that I can get a high enough volume of log data.