[Beowulf] Please help to setup Beowulf

Reuti reuti at staff.uni-marburg.de
Fri Feb 20 07:22:24 PST 2009


Am 20.02.2009 um 14:36 schrieb Prentice Bisbal:

> Bill Broadley wrote:
>> SGE does seem the default for
>> many small/medium clusters these days (and is the Rocks default)  
>> but does make
>> some things strangely hard, usually with a work around though.  In  
>> particular
>> I find the lack of a straight forward way to handle requesting  
>> nodes and
>> processors per node strange.
>
> Me, too. Users are asking me for ppn=x functionality like Torque/PBS
> has, and I'm finding pretty complicated to implement on SGE.

Well, you have to setup nearly identical PEs like openmpi2, openmpi4  
with a fixed allocation rule of 2 or 4 respectively.

OTOH: Once I looked into Torque and found, that with "nodes=2:ppn=2"  
I got just one node with 4 slots in total of course. I don't know,  
whether it can still happen to get such a distribution.

-- Reuti



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