On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Bill Rankin <wran...@duke.edu> wrote: > Hi Rahul, > > If you are looking at the commercial offerings, you may want to also > consider PBS Professional from Altair Engineering. > > http://www.pbspro.com/ > > In the name of full disclosure, I work for the PBS division of Altair. >
How does one compare different schedulers, anyways? Is it mostly "word of mouth" and reputation. Feature sets are good to look at but it's not really a quantitative metric. Are there any third party comparisons of various schedulers? Do they have a niche that one scheduler outperforms another? Perhaps my quest for a quantitative metric is stupid. Maybe this is one of the many areas of technology where things are more qualitative than quantitative anyways. Price/ performance is always hard to define but for schedulers this seems impossible. The other issue seems to be per core licensing. To me it seems as an admin the amount of time and effort one puts in configuring a scheduler for a 50 core system and a 2000 core system is not grossly too different (maybe I am wrong?). The license cost on the other hand scales with cores. That makes the justification even harder. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
