[Beowulf] how useful is bproc, and what does Scyld cost? (fwd)

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

If this is the right reference:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bproc

It should be GPL.  Is it a kernel patch?  Never used it.

Take care,

"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:28:34PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > Is there any interest in packaging bproc for Debian?
> > 
> > Take care,
> 
> About the time I originally packaged lam before I left it in your
> capable hands :) I also looked at bproc.  At that time, it looked
> non-free-ish.  I haven't really looked since. It might be quite
> straightforward.  
> 
> Apropos clusters - OpenPBS is barely supported by Altair any more.  At
> work, talking to an Altair customer rep. I suggested that if he were
> to persuade Altair to open source it, I'd package it for Debian or see
> it packaged.  He seemed more than happy to pursue this.  This would also
> have the desired effect that Torque / OpenPBS could merge up once again
> :)
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 

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