Re: [Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

2018-05-01 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 02/05/18 06:57, Robert Taylor wrote: It appears to do node management, monitoring, and provisioning, so we would still need a job scheduler like lsf, slurm,etc, as well. Is that correct? I've not used it, but I've heard from others that it can/does supply schedulers like Slurm, but (at leas

Re: [Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

2018-05-01 Thread Chris Dagdigian
Bright Cluster Manager is a great product and the only knock is it can be pretty expensive. The most value/love I've seen for it is in the enterprise / corporate space where there is nobody who can do real hands-on HPC support/operations and the reduction in administrative/operational burden

[Beowulf] Bright Cluster Manager

2018-05-01 Thread Robert Taylor
Hi Beowulfers. Does anyone have any experience with Bright Cluster Manager? My boss has been looking into it, so I wanted to tap into the collective HPC consciousness and see what people think about it. It appears to do node management, monitoring, and provisioning, so we would still need a job sch