sun grid engine?
Ron Chen
ron_chen_123 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 26 18:17:53 PST 2003
--- Brian LaMere <blamere at diversa.com> wrote:
> To the point - does anyone actually use Sun's Grid
> Engine?
A few examples:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/gridware/case_studies.html
> and what sort of pro's and con's have they
> experienced?
There are many advantages:
1. free, opensource
2. Tech support from Sun and over 20 3rd party
companies.
3. Friendly community mailing list support.
4. Under active development.
5. Supports many OSes (AIX, *BSD, HPUX, IRIX, Linux,
MacOSX, Solaris, Tru64, NEC SX, Cray, Win2K).
6. There are a few web interfaces available.
7. Maui scheduler is also available.
8. You can configure the SGE deamons to encryt all
data
sent via the network.
9. etc.
> Run well?
Yes.
> Stable?
Yes. I used to have over 20,000 jobs submitted to SGE.
And the largest SGE cluster has 1300 hosts.
Also, may be you are interested in the bio-cluster
setup:
http://bioteam.net/dag/biocluster-diary-1/
-Ron
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