On 09/13/2012 10:20 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> I've found point-and-click works until you want to change something to >> suit your environment. Then you have to start customizing things, and >> that can get messy. > There is actually a quite powerful shell also. I dont actually use the gui > that much apart from as a quick reference. > > Rather then the point and click aspect the main problem for me is that its > proprietary software. It would be expensive for me to get them to make > significant changes. Although as I am just a glorified cable monkey I cant > code anyway. :) >
This reminds me of another point I should have brought up in my previous post about people and politics: The myth that commercial software has better support. It seems managers always want to buy commercial software it's supposed to have better support. From my experience that is a complete myth. When I was using SGE and Open MPI for my previous cluster, I could send an e-mail to the mailing lists for those packages, and usually get a resolution in a couple of days at most. Often, I'd get a useful response with hours, sometimes minutes. And even more impressive, the resolution would normally come from one of the developers who's "volunteering" his time. Sometimes, my requests/bug reports would lead to updated code I could download and test within a couple of days. I could mention many other open-source packages I had similar experiences with, but they're not cluster related. With commercial vendors, I've found resolutions typically take weeks or months. One case took 18 months. I have one issue open with a vendor now thats about 6 weeks old, and no root-cause resolution in site, just a bunch of workarounds. Just for the record, I'm NOT an open-source zealot. I just like to get my job done and go home at a reasonable hour. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
