Re: [Beowulf] The end of Sun Grid Engine?

2010-08-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 at 2:11pm, Joe Landman wrote Douglas Eadline wrote: Is there someone on the list who is following the Oracle/Sun Grid Engine situation that can explain what the plan is? I have read that it is no longer freely available. http://insidehpc.com/2010/08/20/sun-gridengine-now

Re: [Beowulf] The end of Sun Grid Engine?

2010-08-23 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Doug: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote: > Is there someone on the list who is following the Oracle/Sun Grid Engine > situation that can explain what the plan is? > > I have read that it is no longer freely available. > >  http://insidehpc.com/2010/08/20/sun-gridengine-n

Re: [Beowulf] The end of Sun Grid Engine?

2010-08-23 Thread Gus Correa
Douglas Eadline wrote: Is there someone on the list who is following the Oracle/Sun Grid Engine situation that can explain what the plan is? I have read that it is no longer freely available. http://insidehpc.com/2010/08/20/sun-gridengine-now-100-less-free/ Although previous version up until 6.

Re: [Beowulf] The end of Sun Grid Engine?

2010-08-23 Thread Joe Landman
Douglas Eadline wrote: Is there someone on the list who is following the Oracle/Sun Grid Engine situation that can explain what the plan is? I have read that it is no longer freely available. http://insidehpc.com/2010/08/20/sun-gridengine-now-100-less-free/ Although previous version up until

[Beowulf] The end of Sun Grid Engine?

2010-08-23 Thread Douglas Eadline
Is there someone on the list who is following the Oracle/Sun Grid Engine situation that can explain what the plan is? I have read that it is no longer freely available. http://insidehpc.com/2010/08/20/sun-gridengine-now-100-less-free/ Although previous version up until 6.2u5 are under the SIS

Re: [Beowulf] Cluster Metrics? (Upper management view)

2010-08-23 Thread Stuart Barkley
Thanks for the various comments. There are some good ideas suggested. To somewhat clarify: The management metric request is being made of all parts of the entire agency. They probably don't know (or care) what HPC really means. We are lucky that we do get to define the metrics to measure succes

RE: [Beowulf] Cluster Metrics? (Upper management view)

2010-08-23 Thread Bill Rankin
Michael Di Domenico wrote: > I think measuring a clusters success based on the number of jobs run > or cpu's used is a bad measure of true success. I would be more > inclined to consider a cluster a success by speaking with the people > who use it and find out not only whether they can use it eff