RE: [Beowulf] VMC - Virtual Machine Console

2008-01-16 Thread Bill Bryce
Try the man pages for the taskset command on Linux 2.6 machine. There are also system calls sched_setaffinity() and sched_getaffinity() Regards, Bill. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael H. Frese Sent: January 16, 2008 11:33 AM T

RE: [Beowulf] Why need of a scheduler??

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Bryce
cluster. I have no problem as such that many user might log on to the cluster simultaneously. Suppose that I am free to use cluster dedicatedly for my single parallel application. 1) Do I really need a cluster scheduler installed on the cluster? Should I use scheduler? [Bill Bryce] If you are

RE: [Beowulf] Web interfaces for yer cluster.

2007-10-26 Thread Bill Bryce
In response to the question: > PBS, Cluster Resources, and LSF all have some type of web portal where you > can do some of these things. Of course they are commercial and sometimes > not always the most flexible. Do they expose some sort of API as well? There is the DRMAA api that SGE, PBS and

RE: [Beowulf] scheduler policy design

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Bryce
Bill. -Original Message- From: Toon Knapen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:43 AM To: Bill Bryce Cc: Tim Cutts; beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] scheduler policy design Bill Bryce wrote: > > 2) use the LSF resource reservation mechani

RE: [Beowulf] scheduler policy design

2007-04-24 Thread Bill Bryce
To solve the problem below that toon describes where the scheduler believes 4 jobs can co-exist on a single node but they cannot because they are I/O (disk) bound jobs and will thrash the system. There are several ways in LSF, here are two... 1) create a new resource for the type of job cal

RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-04-03 Thread Bill Bryce
ng it...'somewhere safe' is not really an ideal solution especially when the users password changes and the job scheduler does not pickup the change. Regards, Bill Bryce Product Manager Platform Open Cluster Stack -Original Message- From: John Vert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-04-03 Thread Bill Bryce
estriction with other MPI's such as MPICH2 for Windows from Argonne. Regards, Bill. -Original Message- From: John Vert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:19 PM To: Robert G. Brown; Bill Bryce Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!

RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-04-03 Thread Bill Bryce
Regarding the 'borgification' of MPI on Windowsthere is an opening for them to do this. MPI did not define how you start the tasks when you launch a parallel jobit left that up to the MPI implementation. Now most MPIs use something reasonable, like say ssh - or starting a mpd ring to launc

RE: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Bryce
rom: Eric Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:28 PM To: Bill Bryce Cc: Michael Will; Buccaneer for Hire.; beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes Hi Bill, I will try to email them and let everyone know what they h

RE: [Beowulf] SATA II - PXE+NFS - diskless compute nodes

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Bryce
Hi Eric, You may want to send the Perceus guys an email and ask them how hard it is to replace cAos Linux with RHEL or CentOS. I don't believe it should be that hard for them to dowe modified Warewulf to install on top of a stock Rocks cluster effectively turning a Rocks cluster into a Warewu

RE: [Beowulf] Intel MPI 2.0 mpdboot and large clusters, slow tostart up, sometimes not at all

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Bryce
us. Bill. -Original Message- From: M J Harvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 12:23 PM To: Bill Bryce Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Intel MPI 2.0 mpdboot and large clusters, slow tostart up, sometimes not at all Hello, > We are going thro

RE: [Beowulf] Intel MPI 2.0 mpdboot and large clusters, slow tostart up, sometimes not at all

2006-09-29 Thread Bill Bryce
Hi Mark, We are going through a similar experience at one of our customer sites. They are trying to run Intel MPI on more than 1,000 nodes. Are you experiencing problems starting the MPD ring? We noticed it takes a really long time especially when the node count is large. It also just doesn'