<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">G'Day !</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I would be interested in a look ...<br>
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cheers,<br>
Jim Parker<br>
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Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death .... It is far more important than that !!!</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Jag <agrajag@linuxpower.org></b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: beowulf-admin@beowulf.org</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> To: Daniel Persson <myrridin@wlug.westbo.se></font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> Subject: Re: Q system on a Sycld cluster.</font></table>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Daniel Persson wrote:<br>
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> Hi all,<br>
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> A while back there was discussion about wich batch system to use on a<br>
> Scyld cluster. However, what did you people come up to ?<br>
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> Wich bacth system could/should one use on Scyld Beowulf2 cluster ?<br>
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> Is it possible to use for ex PBS ?<br>
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> What i need is a rather simple system whitout to many fancy features -<br>
> suggestions anyone ?<br>
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I wrote a very simple system that you might be interested in. It was<br>
designed to run programs that weren't programed for parallel processing,<br>
but for which you can specify certain command line options or input<br>
(through stdin) to specify how the program should run differently on<br>
each node. It also redirects the output to a file. Each node the job<br>
is run on gets its own file for the output.<br>
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There are a few restraints on it based on how it does the I/O<br>
redirection. It requires that each job you run have a control<br>
directory. This directory stores the input you gives the program on<br>
each node, and is where the output goes. Due to this, it needs to be<br>
located somewhere that is nfs mounted by the slave nodes (such as in<br>
/home). The actual program being run must also be on an nfs mounted<br>
filesystem.<br>
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If anyone is interested in this simple system, let me know and I'll<br>
clean it up for release.<br>
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Hopefully in the future I will modify it to use some of the tricks that<br>
bpsh does so that the control directory and program being run won't have<br>
to be nfs mounted. (Are we going to see a libbpsh?) However, this<br>
probablly won't be there if I do a release this month or next.<br>
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> BTW - The mailinglist archive seems to have stopped at February.<br>
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I've noticed this as well and pointed it out to the person responsible,<br>
but it still doesn't seem to be fixed yet :(<br>
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Jag<br>
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