Re: [Beowulf] Tight MPICH2 Integration with SGE

2008-01-26 Thread Chris Dagdigian
Hi Sangamesh, First things first - Not sure if this affects you but the mpich2-1.06p1 release does not currently work with tight SGE integration. The specific SGE mailing list thread where this is discussed is linked to from here: http://gridengine.info/articles/2008/01/25/tight-mpich2-in

Re: CPU affinity for serial jobs (was Re: [Beowulf] VMC - Virtual Machine Console)

2008-01-26 Thread Joe Landman
Bernard Li wrote: I get the sense that CPU affinity is beneficial even for embarrassingly/serial jobs -- however I am curious whether anybody has Well, yes it is. actual numbers to back this? And is the potential benefits worth the Here are some, more about process CPU->memory affinity t

Re: [Beowulf] rendering cluster

2008-01-26 Thread John Leidel
I would suggest using the Rocks toolkit + the Animation Studio Roll. check out: www.rocksclusters.org http://www.rocksclusters.org/ftp-site/pub/rocks/beta/4.3/ news post: http://insidehpc.com/2007/10/15/rocks-teamthaigrid-release-animation-studio-roll/ On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 17:35 +0100, Jon Aqu

[Beowulf] Tight MPICH2 Integration with SGE

2008-01-26 Thread Sangamesh B
Hi all, I'm doing the Tight MPICH2 (not MPICH) Integration with SGE on a cluster with, dual core dual AMD64 opteron processor. Followed the sun document located at: http://gridengine.sunsource.net/howto/mpich2-integration/mpich2-integration.html The document explains following three k

[Beowulf] rendering cluster

2008-01-26 Thread Jon Aquilina
i am about to begin creating a small cluster for someone whose a graphic designer and does alot of rendering on large files. what would be the easiest way to go about setting up a cluster like this. i was thinking of setting it up and configuring it from scratch using kubuntu linux. -- Jonathan A

CPU affinity for serial jobs (was Re: [Beowulf] VMC - Virtual Machine Console)

2008-01-26 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Rayson: On 1/20/08, Rayson Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Long time no talk! > I am working on adding processor affinity support for serial and > parallel jobs for Grid Engine, and I am working with the OpenMPI > developers to define an interface. > > http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/B