Re: [Beowulf] RE: OT: Announcing MPI-HMMER

2007-01-03 Thread Joe Landman
Chris Samuel wrote: On Thursday 04 January 2007 04:27, David Mathog wrote: Joe and I aparently exist in parallel software universes ;-). Being MPI means it can take advantage of high speed interconnects (e.g. building it with MPICH-GM to use native Myrinet). Of course whether that would

Re: [Beowulf] RE: OT: Announcing MPI-HMMER

2007-01-03 Thread Chris Samuel
On Thursday 04 January 2007 04:27, David Mathog wrote: > Joe and I aparently exist in parallel software universes ;-). Being MPI means it can take advantage of high speed interconnects (e.g. building it with MPICH-GM to use native Myrinet). Of course whether that would benefit HMMER is somethi

Re: [Beowulf] running MPICH on AMD Opteron Dual Core Processor Cluster( 72 Cpu's)

2007-01-03 Thread Chris Samuel
On Thursday 04 January 2007 02:53, Mark Hahn wrote: > personally, I'm pretty convinced that MPI implementations should stay > out of the jobstarter business, and go with straight agentless (ssh-based) > job spawning. Noo... please not ssh again, make the pain go away! Seriously though, this

Re: [Beowulf] picking out a job scheduler

2007-01-03 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 23:01, Reuti wrote: > - Do you need support for Tight Integrated Linda (I think this will   > most often mean Gaussian) (and PVM) parallel jobs: use SGE Interesting, why so ? I know a number of sites around Australia (including a 1900+ CPU cluster) run Gaussian usi

Re: [Beowulf] picking out a job scheduler

2007-01-03 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 15:55, Nathan Moore wrote: > WARNING:  server not specified (set $pbsserver) This has already been answered on the Torque list, but for the folks on the Beowulf list this was the issue. cheers! Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Syst

Re: [Beowulf] picking out a job scheduler

2007-01-03 Thread Nathan Moore
Torque was really easy to install, but it seems like my /etc/hosts file must be screwed up, as I can't get the cluster nodes to respond. Specifically, within a cluster of 3 machines, each having an /etc/hosts file of: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 199.17

Re: [Beowulf] picking out a job scheduler

2007-01-03 Thread wharman
or download TORQUE: http://www.clusterresources.com/pages/products.php -Bill -Original Message- From: "Ed Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 12:30 pm To: "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "beowulf@beowulf.org" Subject: Re: [Beowulf] picking out a job sc

[Beowulf] cluster trips power switch

2007-01-03 Thread Mattijs Janssens
When I switch off our small (16 node) cluster it trips the power switch. Guess there is a temporary power surge. Are there any devices (line conditioners?) that will prevent this? Experiences? Mattijs -- Mattijs Janssens ___ Beowulf mailing list, Be

Re: [Beowulf] RE: OT: Announcing MPI-HMMER

2007-01-03 Thread Joe Landman
David Mathog wrote: Short OT break. http://code.google.com/p/mpihmmer/ an MPI implementation of HMMer 2.3.2. There's also my PVM version of 2.3.2 from 2003/2004, with a few minor fixes since then rolled up into the lastest distribution: ftp://saf.bio.caltech.edu/pub/software/molbio/para

Re: [Beowulf] picking out a job scheduler

2007-01-03 Thread Ed Hill
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 09:59:47 -0500 (EST) "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Glen Beane wrote: > > > If you are doing mostly MPI, I would strongly reccoment TORQUE (a > > free, open source, OpenPBS fork with *many* enhancements). I would > > not reccoment OpenPBS, a

[Beowulf] RE: OT: Announcing MPI-HMMER

2007-01-03 Thread David Mathog
> Short OT break. http://code.google.com/p/mpihmmer/ an MPI > implementation of HMMer 2.3.2. There's also my PVM version of 2.3.2 from 2003/2004, with a few minor fixes since then rolled up into the lastest distribution: ftp://saf.bio.caltech.edu/pub/software/molbio/parallelhmmer.tar.gz

Re: [Beowulf] running MPICH on AMD Opteron Dual Core Processor Cluster( 72 Cpu's)

2007-01-03 Thread Matt Allen
Mark Hahn wrote: > personally, I'm pretty convinced that MPI implementations should stay > out of the jobstarter business, and go with straight agentless (ssh-based) > job spawning. I'm curious about your reasoning, Mark. We've had nightmare situations for years with ssh-based job spawning. The

Re: [Beowulf] SW Giaga, what kind?

2007-01-03 Thread Mark Hahn
But, originally, my question was about the quality and reliability of the brand of *LevelOne* SW (Unmanaged, Gigabit ports), in comparison to its I've never heard "level one" used in this context. the closest would be "layer 2", which refers to mac-based switching, and might be what you mean.

Re: [Beowulf] running MPICH on AMD Opteron Dual Core Processor Cluster( 72 Cpu's)

2007-01-03 Thread Mark Hahn
" p1_8544: p4_error: Timeout in Establishing connection to remote process: 0 " rm_l_1_8667: (359.417969) net_send: could not write to fd=5, errno=104 We have been trying the same for the past two days and we didnt get any solution for the above. but what have you tried? I would guess that th

Re: [Beowulf] picking out a job scheduler

2007-01-03 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Glen Beane wrote: If you are doing mostly MPI, I would strongly reccoment TORQUE (a free, open source, OpenPBS fork with *many* enhancements). I would not reccoment OpenPBS, as Altair no longer updates it and hasn't for quite some time. TORQUE has great integration with mpi

Re: [Beowulf] Which distro for the cluster?

2007-01-03 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Leif Nixon wrote: "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Also, plenty of folks on this list have done just fine running "frozen" linux distros "as is" for years on cluster nodes. If they aren't broke, and live behind a firewall so security fixes aren't terribly impo

Re: [Beowulf] picking out a job scheduler

2007-01-03 Thread Glen Beane
If you are doing mostly MPI, I would strongly reccoment TORQUE (a free, open source, OpenPBS fork with *many* enhancements). I would not reccoment OpenPBS, as Altair no longer updates it and hasn't for quite some time. TORQUE has great integration with mpich by using mpiexec from Pete at (

Re: [Beowulf] picking out a job scheduler

2007-01-03 Thread Reuti
Hi, Am 03.01.2007 um 02:23 schrieb Chris Samuel: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 08:06, Chris Dagdigian wrote: Both should be fine although if you are considering *PBS you should look at both Torque (a fork of OpenPBS I think) although I'm somehow biased to suggest SGE, I also check from time

Re: [Beowulf] Which distro for the cluster?

2007-01-03 Thread Leif Nixon
"Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, plenty of folks on this list have done just fine running "frozen" > linux distros "as is" for years on cluster nodes. If they aren't broke, > and live behind a firewall so security fixes aren't terribly important, > why fix them? Because you