Ideally ISVs won't link with a.DLL for Compute Cluster Server. Instead they'll call a web service running on the job scheduler node. That web service could be offered by a Windows cluster or a Linux/UNIX cluster. This simplifies cluster integration work for ISVs.
We hope the way people do this is using the HPC Profile as defined by OGF. The first release of this spec is pretty simple (read: pragmatic) and in the future I hope it will become richer, providing better application integration with cluster resources. We've just hired Steven Newhouse (previously with OMII at Southampton) to work with OGF and related standards on these kinds of issues. If you're passionate about job scheduler interoperability or about ISV integration with clusters I'd encourage you to join the HPC Profile working group at OGF. Thanks, Ryan Waite Group Program Manager - HPC Microsoft Corporation -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Altmaier Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters 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 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
