simple Scyld question.

[Jakob Østergaard]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:10:31PM -0500, Christoph Wasshuber wrote:
> This must sound pretty mundane but I have a simple
> question. We got Scyld installed on our PC cluster.
> Now all we want to do is to run some programs on it.
> 
> 1) What is the simplest job scheduling tool we
>    could use. (something that finds an empty machine
>    and executes the code)

http://unthought.net/antsd

This is a very simple job scheduling system that works well for short lived or
"interactive" jobs.   For example compile jobs.   The scheduling latency is
very low, but there are some requirements for cluster homogenity etc. that
makes it a poor choice for many traditional HPC workloads.

For long lived jobs, you probably want to look at a "real" queue system.

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