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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Scott, </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>.... or if you don't need batch but would like some interaction without the use of any special libraries, you might like to have a little look at what the MOSIX guys are doing at <A HREF="http://www.mosix.org/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.mosix.org/</A> or <A HREF="http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/</A> (I'm not sure but I think their website is down at the moment). I am currently building a dev box for general use and spreading compiles across nodes seems a good idea since you see the system as one big box. Then there is the added bonus you don't need to recompile any code....! </FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Regards, </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Mark. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Tel: (01942)722518 </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message----- </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Ron Chen [SMTP:ron_chen_123@yahoo.com] </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Monday 19 November 2001 07:00 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Scott Thomason; Beowulf@beowulf.org </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: Compile farm? </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>What you need is a batch system. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>There are 2 free batch systems, SGE and PBS. </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Both of them are opensource, but nevertheless, you </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>can </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>get 7x24 support if you are willing to pay. </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>PBS: www.openpbs.com </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> www.pbspro.com </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>SGE: www.sun.com/gridware </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> gridengine.sunsource.net </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Also, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>SGE has qmake, which can execute several </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>instances of make on mutliple machines for one single </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>make job. </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Install note: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://supportforum.sun.com/gridengine/appnote_install.html" TARGET="_blank">http://supportforum.sun.com/gridengine/appnote_install.html</A> </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>-Ron </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>--- Scott Thomason <SThomaso@phmining.com> wrote: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Greetings. I'm interested in setting up a shell </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> account/batch process/compile </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>farm system for our </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> developers, and I'm wondering if Beowulf clusters </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> are well suited to that task. We're not interested </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> in </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>writing parallel code using PVM or MPI, we just </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> want to log into what appears to be one big server </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> and have it dispatch the workload </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>amongst the slave </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> processors. Is Beowulf good at that? </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> ---scott </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> p.s. Sorry if there are duplicates of this message; </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I used the wrong email address earlier. </FONT>
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