Re: [Beowulf] Using LSF

2008-02-20 Thread Mark Hahn
submit the jobs through a job scheduler (LSF in this case). We used the machinefile option with mpirun to order the nodes on which the processes has to be started. But i am not able to do this with the current setup where LSF is used for scheduling and SLURM for resource management. I have tried

[Beowulf] JVM Clustering

2008-02-20 Thread C.
Hi all.. First post to the list so lets hope I get this right... With the recent discussion about the relatively low cost of SDR IB it made me wonder if I could solve these two very broad goals 1) Distributed jvm to run very large reports/statistical analysis 2) load balancing/hpc type solution

Re: [Beowulf] need for an advice on nfs and diskless clients

2008-02-20 Thread John Hearns
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 11:26 +0100, Maxime Kinet wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm setting up a cluster, made of diskless workstations, booting > through NFS. For that purpose I created a copy of the node's > filesystem in a /tftpboot directory. That is, I have a full filesytem > for each single > node : /t

Re: [Beowulf] need for an advice on nfs and diskless clients

2008-02-20 Thread Peter St. John
Maxime, Would it be feasible to use "ln" to create symbolic links to populate /tftproot/192.168.1.N, for each node N, from say /tftproot/generic ? Peter On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Maxime Kinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm setting up a cluster, made of diskless workstations, boot

Re: [Beowulf] need for an advice on nfs and diskless clients

2008-02-20 Thread Joe Landman
Greetings Maxime: Maxime Kinet wrote: I know that there are several different options to make several clients mounting their filesystems, and that this one might not be the most efficient one, but I choosed that one just because I knew already how to do it. Now everything works fine, except t

Re: [Beowulf] Re: High Performance SSH/SCP

2008-02-20 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:39:33PM -0500, Chris Rapier wrote: > In the near future we do hope to have some package distributions > available for easy downloading. I'm looking forward to that day -- while it is extra work, it will increase usage quite a bit. -- greg _

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Setting up a new Beowulf cluster

2008-02-20 Thread Berkley Starks
Thank you all for the help and support here. With what has been presented here, and sound considerations, we have decided on a home for our Beowulf cluster. The room is already sound proofed, and well air conditioned. As for people worrying about noise, it will be housed with out vacuum chamber,

[Beowulf] JVM Clustering

2008-02-20 Thread C.
Hi all.. First post to the list so lets hope I get this right... With the recent discussion about the relatively low cost of SDR IB it made me wonder if I could solve these two very broad goals 1) Distributed jvm to run very large reports/statistical analysis 2) load balancing/hpc type solution

Re: [Beowulf] High Performance SSH/SCP

2008-02-20 Thread Ellis Wilson
Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Yes, I know that professors usually tell some green graduate student to > go build a cluster for the dept, but that's a completely different topic > outside the scope of this list... I think you will find a number of persons on this list hold the definition of the Beowulf

Fwd: [Beowulf] Re: wajig for Ubuntu/Debian package management

2008-02-20 Thread Pascal Charest
Jeez, still forgot to reply to the mailling list. Sorry. -- Forwarded message -- From: Pascal Charest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 18, 2008 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Re: wajig for Ubuntu/Debian package management To: Leif Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ah, of course. Same thi

[Beowulf] need for an advice on nfs and diskless clients

2008-02-20 Thread Maxime Kinet
Hi, I'm setting up a cluster, made of diskless workstations, booting through NFS. For that purpose I created a copy of the node's filesystem in a /tftpboot directory. That is, I have a full filesytem for each single node : /tftpboot/192.168.1.1, /tftpboot/192.168.1.2, / tftpboot/192.168.1

[Beowulf] Using LSF

2008-02-20 Thread bala
Hi all, I am stuck with a problem related to LSF. I want to submit a MPI job with the critera the process with rank 1 should start on node2, rank 2 should start on node 4, rank 3 should start on node 1 and so on. This order is pretty much random. Accomplishing this was not a problem till we didn

[Beowulf] Re: High Performance SSH/SCP

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Rapier
Hi, I'm Chris Rapier, the PI and lead on the HPN-SSH project. As Ben Bennett said, A colleague just pointed me to this thread, I'll try to keep an eye on it if there are any questions, or feel free to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanted to address an issue that has been brought up a couple of

Re: [Beowulf] Re: wajig for Ubuntu/Debian package management

2008-02-20 Thread Brian Oborn
One final question: is it possible to verify the integrity of installed files? (For example, I can run "rpm -V glibc" to check the md5 sum of all files in the glibc package against the package database. The debsums package does this (http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/debsums). I don't thin