Re: [Beowulf] Functionality of schedulers

2012-02-29 Thread Rayson Ho
Jon, Almost every cluster job scheduler supports preemption (use it as the google keyword and you will find lots of references...). Torque has job preemption. I have not used Torque for a while (I used to be an OpenPBS user) so I am not the best person to answer the question for Torque. However,

Re: [Beowulf] Functionality of schedulers

2012-02-29 Thread Jan Wender
Hi Jon, Jon Tegner schrieb: Is there any scheduler which has the functionality to automatically put a running job on hold when another job with higher priority is submitted? AFAIK at least LSF has this as a feature called preemption. Preferably the state of the first job should be frozen, an

[Beowulf] Functionality of schedulers

2012-02-29 Thread Jon Tegner
Hi list! Is there any scheduler which has the functionality to automatically put a running job on hold when another job with higher priority is submitted? Preferably the state of the first job should be frozen, and saved to disk, so that it can be restarted again when the higher priority job ha

[Beowulf] amd buys seamicro

2012-02-29 Thread Mark Hahn
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4237271/AMD-to-buy-microserver-startup-SeaMicro this is interesting. most of the coverage seems to interpret this as using opterons (which makes some sense, given the direction bulldozer is going, towards lots of space/power-effective cores.) but here's a

Re: [Beowulf] Raspberry Pi

2012-02-29 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/12 08:40, Douglas J. Trainor wrote: > thought some people here should see the Raspberry Pi -- Been following this for a while, they're rather neat little devices.. http://www.raspberrypi.org/#modelb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_P

Re: [Beowulf] Computer on a stick

2012-02-29 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/12 00:52, Douglas Eadline wrote: > FYI > > There is a very good article in Linux magazine written by Tom > Sterling in 2003 that provides a first person history (I have used > it to stamp out more than a few urban legends) > > http://www.li

Re: [Beowulf] Computer on a stick

2012-02-29 Thread Douglas Eadline
FYI There is a very good article in Linux magazine written by Tom Sterling in 2003 that provides a first person history (I have used it to stamp out more than a few urban legends) http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1378/ -- Doug > And from a simple statement in that paper: > "It is clear from these re

Re: [Beowulf] Computer on a stick

2012-02-29 Thread Daniel Pfenniger
Christopher Samuel a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 29/02/12 02:36, Hearns, John wrote: > >> What was the spec of the original Beowulf project nodes? > > Their paper says: > > http://egscbeowulf.er.usgs.gov/geninfo/Beowulf-ICPP95.pdf > Thanks for the link. In the