Re: [Beowulf] Beobash at SC15 announced

2015-11-10 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 27/10/15 08:00, Douglas Eadline wrote: > 2015 Beowulf Bash Have fun all, I can't be at SC this year. All the best! Chris -- Christopher SamuelSenior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545

Re: [Beowulf] modern batch management systems

2015-11-10 Thread Jeffrey Layton
I'll join in the fun. I personally like Openlava (www.openlava.org). I've found it to be tremendously easy to install and manage. Plus I like the fail-over features and the performance. Also, it's still being actively developed. Finally, the mailing list is low traffic but there are wonderful peop

Re: [Beowulf] modern batch management systems

2015-11-10 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:49:57 PM Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: > Which free (and potentially free in a few years) batch systems > you recommend? Slurm. http://slurm.schedmd.com/ It's GPL, flexible, on Github, active development community and we're running it on our x86 clusters and our BlueGene/Q wi

Re: [Beowulf] modern batch management systems

2015-11-10 Thread Lundie Mark
I've been happily using Slurm on two clusters and standalone SMP nodes for a few years now. It is easy to set up, has plugins to handle a wide range of scenarios and can be integrated with Maui if you need greater flexibility. So far I haven't required this. Mark On 10/11/15 09:49, Mikhail Ku

Re: [Beowulf] modern batch management systems

2015-11-10 Thread Lundie Mark
I've been happily using Slurm on two clusters and standalone SMP nodes for a few years now. It is easy to set up, has plugins to handle a wide range of scenarios and can be integrated with Maui if you need greater flexibility. So far I haven't required this. Mark On 10/11/15 09:49, Mikhail Ku

Re: [Beowulf] modern batch management systems

2015-11-10 Thread Jörg Saßmannshausen
Hi Mikhail, I am still using the last free SGE (6.2u5) and that is working for me well. I had to update a few scripts to it is recognising newer kernels. Having said that, I am aware there is the Son of Gridengine which is maintained by a colleague in Liverpool if I am not mistaken. As far as

[Beowulf] modern batch management systems

2015-11-10 Thread Mikhail Kuzminsky
In our  more old clusters we used PBS and SGE as batch systems to run quantum-chemical applications. Now there are also commercial versions PBS Pro and Oracle Grid Engine, and other commercial batch management programs. But we are based on free open-source batch management systems. Which free (