Re: [Beowulf] distributions

2006-02-02 Thread Bill Rankin
You should also point out that those nodes have been (over the same period) Intel only, originally i386 only. Au contraire! out test cluster used Athlons, and our initial (4) 64- bit boxes were Opterons ;-) But in essence, you are correct. The main point is, using FCx isn't "crazy", it is j

Re: [Beowulf] distributions

2006-02-02 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Bill Rankin wrote: On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Robert G. Brown wrote: What we do is use centos for servers (LAN/department servers, that also serve the cluster nodes with e.g. home and project space). We use FC-even revision numbers for desktops, cluster nodes, etc. An

[Beowulf] jobs won't start with PBS scheduler

2006-02-02 Thread Tomas Pevny
Hi, I have a peculiar problem with PBS scheduler. I have several queues on the server -- High, MatlabQueue and medium. MatlabQueue has a limit on the number of running jobs set to 50, since I have only 50 licenses of matlab. Other two queues has the limit set to 80, which is the number of proces

Re: [Beowulf] distributions

2006-02-02 Thread Bill Rankin
On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Robert G. Brown wrote: What we do is use centos for servers (LAN/department servers, that also serve the cluster nodes with e.g. home and project space). We use FC-even revision numbers for desktops, cluster nodes, etc. And for a slightly different view of othe

Re: [Beowulf] distributions

2006-02-02 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Greg M. Kurtzer wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:09:58PM -0700, Warren Turkal wrote: Is it ok to mix linux distributions when building a cluster? I am wondering for migration purposes. For instance, it the current cluster had FC2 and I wanted to move to FC3, would it be ok