Re: [Beowulf] Most common cluster management software, job schedulers, etc?

2016-03-07 Thread Adam DeConinck
Hi Jeff, There's a survey on small HPC center management every year, as well as a BoF at Supercomputing. It might be worth checking out the yearly survey results at https://sites.google.com/site/smallhpc/ Cheers, Adam On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Jeff Friedman < jeff.fried...@siliconmechanic

[Beowulf] Most common cluster management software, job schedulers, etc?

2016-03-07 Thread Jeff Friedman
Hello all. I am just entering the HPC Sales Engineering role, and would like to focus my learning on the most relevant stuff. I have searched near and far for a current survey of some sort listing the top used “stacks”, but cannot seem to find one that is free. I was breaking things down similar

Re: [Beowulf] Jeff Squayres MPI proposals

2016-03-07 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 08/03/16 00:32, John Hearns wrote: > Us old style guys are going to have our lunch money stolen by young > upstarts. Or is that startups? This presumes that everyone is going to be running massive clusters at huge scale with completely new codes. That might be true for a few large labs, but I

Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

2016-03-07 Thread Olli-Pekka Lehto
First iteration of the mini-cluster is now in production. Some takeaways and observations: We did the first deployment of the mini-cluster, called "Sisunen" last weekend at the local science centre. We ended up developing the concept so that kids could actually construct the cluster. We held 7 bui

Re: [Beowulf] Jeff Squayres MPI proposals

2016-03-07 Thread Justin Y. Shi
It's also interesting to observe the API designs follow XML (key, value) pair in all these startups that want to handle failures ... Justin On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:32 AM, John Hearns wrote: > Indeed. Some interesting news here: > > > http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/03/04/docker-acquires-ap

Re: [Beowulf] Jeff Squayres MPI proposals

2016-03-07 Thread John Hearns
Indeed. Some interesting news here: http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/03/04/docker-acquires-apache-aurora-founders/ Us old style guys are going to have our lunch money stolen by young upstarts. Or is that startups? Seriously - these guys know how to keep things running at scale and how to toler