Subject: [Beowulf] Re: SGE + policy

[Steve Cousins]

On Fri, 28 May 2004 beowulf-request at beowulf.org wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2004, Andrew Piskorski wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:01:09PM -0700, beowulf-request at beowulf.org wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu>
> > 
> > > Primary tasks:  matlab and stata jobs, run either interactively/remote
> > > or (more likely) in batch mode.  Jobs include both "short" jobs that
> > 
> > > Constraint:  matlab requires a license managed by a license manager.

I don't know if the proposed cluster is using dual CPU's but I believe you
can run multiple Matlab sessions on one node and use only one license.  
So if you had two CPU's you could run two sessions (and more probably if
you had a bunch of interactive sessions) and use only one license.  This
would at least drop the number of licenses needed in half.  So, depending
on what the Matlab licenses cost these days maybe it would be cheaper to
get a bunch of 8 CPU Opterons :^o

Steve
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