Here is a proactive suggestion for keeping open source ahead of Microsoft CCS: 1. I think CCS will appeal to small shops with no prior cluster and no admin capability beyond a part time windows person. 2. such customers are the volume seats for a range of desktop CAD/CAE tools. 3. Such ISVs will see potential of license growth, and will likely choose to tie-in to the Microsoft message of ease-of-use. A big feature here, in my view, is the one-button-job-launch.
This means, for Linux to have a position as the backend compute cluster, we must have this one button job launch capability. A Windows library must be available to the ISV, to provide a job submission API to the batch scheduler. With such a feature, the ISVs can be persued to incoporate. Ideally the job submission API is a kind of standard, so the ISV does not see duplicate work versus the batch scheduler used. So, a) we need a job submission API, and b) we need the Windows library added to Linux batch schedulers. (I'm not saying the scheduler runs on Windows, we just need the submission/retrieve portion). Does such exist already? Thanks, Rich Rich Altmaier, SGI _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
