Many, many, many moons ago I wrote a plugin for the clustering framework
(now defunct) that we used and I was a developer on back at UC Berkeley. It
was quite simple... it simply checked to see if jobs were in the queue, if
not it looked to see what nodes were free (using OpenPBS/Torque native
I think the feature you're looking for is "Wake on LAN",
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
I've wondered similar things - the small cluster I run for a
students/departmental use is generally off, except when I'm teaching
computational physics, or have a student interested in a specific rese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am wondering whether there is any mechanism to automatically
> power down nodes (e.g., ACPI S3) when idle for some time, and
> automatically wake up when requested (e.g., by WOL, some cluster
> scheduler, ssh). I imagine that I could cut down power & cooling
> on our
Hi All,
I am wondering whether there is any mechanism to automatically
power down nodes (e.g., ACPI S3) when idle for some time, and
automatically wake up when requested (e.g., by WOL, some cluster
scheduler, ssh). I imagine that I could cut down power & cooling
on our system by more than 50%. An
