Re: [Beowulf] looking for good distributed shell program

2010-05-11 Thread Gavin Burris
On 05/11/2010 10:00 AM, Tony Travis wrote: > We use Dancer's shell "dsh": > http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en As do I. Highly recommended. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your

Re: [Beowulf] clustering using xen virtualized machines

2010-01-28 Thread Gavin Burris
Two staff couldn't handle 2k users and 100 of departments, or that much hardware. Answering tickets or emails alone would be overwhelming. Building/maintaining the VMs, or training/document/helping the departments to build their own VMs is a monumental task in and of itself. A more realistic numb

Re: [Beowulf] clustering using xen virtualized machines

2010-01-27 Thread Gavin Burris
The cost for virtualization is in buying really big hardware, oodles of memory and many many cores, that are capable of running multiple VMs, and having that hardware configured for redundancy, high availability and failover. With an HPC cluster, you are typically buying hardware that is as stripp

Re: [Beowulf] clustering using xen virtualized machines

2010-01-27 Thread Gavin Burris
Is it just me, or does HPC clustering and virtualization fall on opposite ends of the spectrum? With virtualization, you are pooling many virtual OS/server instances on high availablility hardware, sharing memory and cpu as demanded, oversubscribing. What would be idle time on one server, is util