Re: [Beowulf] Please help to setup Beowulf

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Hahn
what's wrong with 500k job submissions? to me, the existence of "array jobs" is an admission that the job/queueing system is inefficient. When I compare this e.g. to C: - a loop like: for (i=1;i<=10;i++) printf("Hello from run %d.\n", i); - and you can guess: 100,000 times: p

Re: [Beowulf] Please help to setup Beowulf

2009-02-18 Thread Joe Landman
I didn't respond yesterday ... been ridiculously busy ... really :( Chris Dagdigian wrote: briefly on the "FUD": As one of the users/admin types who watched jobs go into an unkillable (without power-cycle) state, I can assure you that the problems with PBS (at the time) were legendary and not

Re: [Beowulf] Please help to setup Beowulf

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Dagdigian
Hi Mark, On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:32 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: searches. Without array task scheduling this would require 500,000 individual job submissions. The fact that I never met a serious PBS shop that had not what's wrong with 500k job submissions? to me, the existence of "array jobs" is

Re: [Beowulf] Please help to setup Beowulf

2009-02-18 Thread Reuti
Am 18.02.2009 um 07:32 schrieb Mark Hahn: searches. Without array task scheduling this would require 500,000 individual job submissions. The fact that I never met a serious PBS shop that had not what's wrong with 500k job submissions? to me, the existence of "array jobs" is an admission