[Beowulf] Please help to setup Beowulf

Bill Rankin wrankin at duke.edu
Thu Feb 19 12:20:04 PST 2009


> The fact that I  
> never met a serious PBS shop that had not made local custom changes to  
> the source code also soured me on deploying it when I was putting such  
> things into conservative IT shops who were still new and fearful of  
> Linux.

One thing to note on Chris's review is that the PBS he is referring to
is effectively OpenPBS.  PBS Pro from Altair is a different product
entirely (forked from OpenPBS many years and feature sets ago).  One
important item is that PBS Pro support job arrays very nicely.

-bill

(full disclosure - yeah, I work for Altair.  Did you guess? ;) )






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